Stock price Verizon Communications Inc (VZ) today

Verizon Communications Inc — American telecommunication conglomerate, one of the biggest in the world. The company is devoted to cellphone network services on the US market, grants access to the Internet etc. Also considered in the calculation of Dow Jones Industrial Average, the company’s stocks are traded at NYSE. It was founded as a result of the union of several telecommunication companies: Bell Atlantic (est in 1984) и GTE (est in 1955). In 2006 in absorbs MCI (which deals with IP-protocol services). In 2015 it buys the media-conglomerate AOL, in the upcoming year — Yahoo!, which makes Verizon Communications Inc one of the biggest communication holdings in the USA.