VerizonA leader in fiber optics, Verizon offers phone, Internet, TV, wireless and service bundles to residential, business, government and wholesale clients.
Awards and Recognition

Corporate

  • Verizon placed on CRO magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens list for 2011. We made the list for the fourth consecutive year.
  • Verizon received the Better Business Bureau's International Torch Award for Marketplace Excellence in 2010 - the first time this award has been presented to a telecommunications company.
  • The Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe, the online privacy evaluator, again ranked Verizon among the top 20 U.S. companies in its annual survey of the Most Trusted Companies for Privacy. Verizon ranked No. 14.
  • Scholastic Administrator magazine has named Verizon Thinkfinity a Best in Tech website for professional development.
  • Verizon was honored with the Anti-Defamation League's 2010 Americanism Award for our commitment to educate the community on cyber bullying and other digital literacy issues.

Products and Services

  • In the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study, Volume 1, wireless users rate Verizon Wireless as the leader in five regions covering 44 states.
  • IDC has named Verizon Communications as a leader in the U.S. enterprise mobility market in the analyst firm's recently published report, "IDC MarketScape: Mobile Enterprise Services 2010 Vendor Analysis."
  • Gartner Inc. has positioned Verizon in the Leaders Quadrant of the industry analyst firm's 2010 report, "Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting."
  • For the third consecutive year, Verizon's FiOS TV outperforms the competition in the East, according to new research conducted by J.D. Power and Associates.
  • For the fifth year in a row, Verizon FiOS has been named the top Internet Service Provider (ISP) by the readers of PCMag.com.
  • J.D. Power and Associates ranked us highest in customer satisfaction in the small- and home-office segment in its 2010 U.S. Major Provider Business Telecommunications Study - Voice Services.

Diversity and Workplace Excellence

  • For the eighth consecutive year, our commitment to diversity and inclusion was recognized by LATINA Style Magazine in its 2010 Latina Style 50 list of the best companies to work for in the U.S.
  • Verizon is ranked third on Training magazine's 2011 Training Top 125, a list of companies that have the best training and development programs for employees.
  • Verizon's commitment to supplier diversity and its support of the Asian small-business community earned the 2010 Corporate Leadership Award from the Asian Business Association of Los Angeles.
  • For the 10th consecutive year, Verizon was named to Working Mother Magazine's list of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers.
  • Verizon was No. 4 on MBA Magazine's 2010 list of Top 50 Companies for Diverse Managers to Work.
  • Verizon's continued efforts to create a diverse work force and an inclusive work environment have again earned the company a ranking on the Diversityinc 2010 list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity.

Environmental / Social / Governance

  • Verizon is included on the Maplecroft Climate Innovation Index, a list of 100 top-performing companies in the U.S. selected for their climate related innovation and carbon management programs.
  • Verizon received the Groundbreaker Award at the 2011 Clean Economy Summit for fostering the development and adoption of new technologies and business practices that advance a clean economy.
  • Verizon placed on Newsweek's North American Green rankings for the second consecutive year, while ranking No. 45 on the magazine's inaugural Global 100 list.
  • For the past two years, Verizon has been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North American Index, which lists leading companies as measured by governance, social and environmental performance.
  • For the second time, Verizon Wireless was named one of the Top 12 Green IT Vendors by Computerworld. This year, Verizon ranked No. 4.
  • Verizon placed on the NASDAQ Global Sustainability Index, a benchmark for stocks of companies that are taking a leadership role in disclosing their carbon footprint, energy usage, water consumption, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, employee safety, workforce diversity, management composition and community investing.