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unusual facts about Verizon



2001 Verizon Tennis Challenge

The 2001 Verizon Tennis Challenge was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2001 ATP Tour.

2009 Arkansas Twisters season

The National Conference team, led by head coach Chris Siegfried, played their home games on Allstate Field at Alltel Arena (which changed names to "Verizon Arena" mid-season) in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Airfone

Bell Mobility used the Airfone technology on Air Canada flights, but brands its service Skytel (no relation to the Verizon-owned paging firm of the same name).

Apple community

A version of the iPhone 4 using CDMA technology to run on the Verizon Wireless cellular network in the US, long rumored as the "Verizon iPhone" since shortly after the original iPhone on AT&T Mobility was announced, was announced on January 11, 2011.

Bill Starkov

Bill Starkov has worked with some of the top international brands including Toyota, Reebok, McDonald's, and Verizon.

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

Brew OS is used by Sprint Nextel, metroPCS, Cricket Wireless, U.S. Cellular, Verizon, Syringa Wireless, and AT&T (in the HTC Freestyle) in the US and by the 3 network in much of Europe, the UK and Australia on many mobile phones produced especially for their network.

Certified email

CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the top 10 ISPs in the USA: AOL, AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Road Runner, Verizon, and Yahoo.

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

The Orchestra also performed the world premiere of a PIFA commission, Hope: An Oratorio by Jonathan Leshnoff, with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia, and soloists Angelique Kidjo and David Linx, in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall.

Connect2Media

Through agreements with telephone wireless carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile, O2, AT&T, Telefonica and Orange, Connect2Media has a distribution network of over 50 countries.

CounterPath Corporation

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, SaskTel, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Metaswitch Networks, GENBAND, Mitel, NTT and NEC.

Devour

Motorola Devour, an Android-based smartphone produced by Motorola for Verizon Wireless

FaktorTel

FaktorTel is the owner and operator of their purpose built VOIP network spanning all major capital cities across Australia and have formed agreements with Optus, AAPT, PowerTel and MCI (Verizon) which provides them with National and Global reach.

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

Fios

Verizon FiOS, bundled home communications service offered by Verizon Communications in the United States

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company

International voice traffic is carried for GT&T by Verizon; international collect calling is provided through agreements with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Call Home Telecom, Bell Canada, Telus and British Telecom.

Harbour Town Golf Links

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) now sponsors the golf tournament after Verizon discontinued their sponsorship of the event following the 2010 tournament.

Jon Bond

The firm became the largest independently held agency in the United States, with clients including BMW, Target, Citi, Capital One, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret, Verizon, AT&T, Snapple, and Delta Airlines, among others.

Kevin Ceballo

On October 20, 2002, Ceballo headlined a free concert at the Verizon Music Festival held in Washington, D.C. with the participation of the late Celia Cruz.

Las Colinas

During the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations—including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as Exxon Mobil Corporation, GTE Telephone (now Verizon), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp.

Lucy Hood

Hood guides the Institute’s strategy and its consortium of corporate members which include AT&T, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Qualcomm, Motorola Mobility, Alcatel-Lucent, Disney, Fox and Ogilvy & Mather.

Major Dodge

As a Model he has appeared in ads for the NFL, Abercrombie and Fitch, Panasonic "Pretty Tough", Mountain Dew, Absolut Vodka, Captain Morgan Rum, Nintendo Gamecube, Verizon Wireless, Remote Possibilities, the board game Princes and Frogs, and on a billboard in New York City's Times Square for Conde Nast Publications.

Oak Mountain Amphitheatre

Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, formerly known as the Verizon Wireless Music Center, is an outdoor amphitheater, owned by Live Nation, located in Pelham, Alabama, a few miles south of Birmingham.

Riverport Riot

The Riverport Riot was a riot at the Riverport Amphitheater (now named Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis) in Maryland Heights, Missouri (near St. Louis) at a Guns N' Roses concert on July 2, 1991.

Rock n Roll Soldiers

The Rock n Roll Soldiers' song "Funny Little Feeling" received national play, being featured in a Verizon wireless commercial, popular television shows such as One Tree Hill, Smallville, and Malcolm In The Middle and several video games including MVP Baseball 2005, L.A Rush, and Gran Turismo 4.

Sarah Deutsch

Deutsch gained media attention for representing Verizon in the copyright case RIAA v. Verizon, in which the Recording Industry Association of America obtained a subpoena demanding Verizon to disclose the identity of several subscribers who were allegedly engaged in illegal P2P file-sharing.

Smartphone

In early 2001, Palm, Inc. introduced the Kyocera 6035, which combined a PDA with a mobile phone and operated on Verizon.

SpeechCycle

SpeechCycle counts as customers the largest cable and telecommunication operators in the US and abroad, such as Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Mediacom, Bresnan, Verizon, and Telstra.

STORMBREW

That partner was identified on October 23, 2013 by the Washington Post -- quoting NSA historian Matthew Aid -- as Verizon.

Syracuse Telephonic Exchange

In 1997, the Bell system consolidated again into five companies and NYNEX became part of the Bell Atlantic system which eventually merged into Verizon.

Thomas J. Campana, Jr.

On 12 September 2007, they filed patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.

Totality

Totality Corporation, a former professional services provider acquired by Verizon

Utilimaster Corporation

Utilimaster's customers include FedEx, United States Postal Service, UPS, Canada Post, Purolator, Airborne, Budget, Penske, Ryder TRS, Frito-Lay, Keebler, Krispy Kreme, IBC, Canadian Linen and Uniform Service, Cintas, AmeriPride, Verizon, Apria Health Care, and Home Depot.

Verizon Arena

Fleetwood Mac performed at Verizon Arena May 4, 2013 with surprise guests former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton attending the show.

Wendy Wright

Her vocals also appear in numerous Verizon commercials, and she has sung back up for Johnny Lang, Billie Myers, Wayne Brady, Solomon Burke, Jeff Trachta, Philip Michael Thomas, Tony Scott and Candy Dulfer.


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