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|operating_income = US$ 19.599 billion (2014)〔 |net_income = US$ 9.625 billion (2014)〔 |assets = US$ 232.708 billion (2014)〔 |equity = US$ 13.676 billion (2014)〔 |num_employees = 177,300 (2014)〔 | parent = | divisions = Verizon New England Verizon New York Verizon Delaware Verizon New Jersey Verizon Pennsylvania Verizon North Verizon Maryland Verizon Virginia Verizon California Verizon Wireless Verizon Fios | subsid = Verizon Wireless AOL Diamond State Telephone New Jersey Bell Bell of Pennsylvania Verizon North The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Verizon California Hughes Telematics Terremark EdgeCast Networks International Computer Security Association CyberTrust〔 | homepage = }} Verizon Communications (pronounced ), is an American broadband and telecommunications company, the largest U.S. wireless communications service provider as of September 2014, and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is based at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City,〔 but is incorporated in Delaware. What eventually became Verizon was founded as Bell Atlantic, which was one of the seven Baby Bells that were formed after AT&T Corporation was forced to relinquish its control of the Bell System by order of the Justice Department of the United States. Bell Atlantic came into existence in 1984 with a footprint from New Jersey to Virginia, with each area having a separate operating company (consisting of New Jersey Bell, Bell of Pennsylvania, Diamond State Telephone, and C&P Telephone). As part of the rebranding that the Baby Bells took in the mid-1990s, all of the operating companies assumed the Bell Atlantic name. In 1997, Bell Atlantic expanded into New York and the New England states by merging with fellow Baby Bell NYNEX. In addition, Bell Atlantic moved their headquarters from Philadelphia into the old NYNEX headquarters and rebranded the entire company as Bell Atlantic. In 2000 Bell Atlantic merged with GTE, which operated telecommunications companies across most of the rest of the country that was not already in Bell Atlantic's footprint. Bell Atlantic, the surviving company, changed its name to "Verizon", a portmanteau of ''ラテン語:veritas'' (Latin for "truth") and ''horizon''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Verizon — Investor Relations — Company Profile — Corporate History )〕 Following several mergers among the Baby Bells, Verizon is one of three surviving Baby Bells, alongside AT&T (which as SBC Corporation bought the original AT&T in 2005) and independent company CenturyLink, which owns the former US West. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verizon Communications」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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