Verizon is joining forces with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and a number of other businesses and community organizations to help promote safe driving through It Can Wait. The campaign urges drivers to pledge not to text and drive and provides resources and tools to help prevent distracted driving.
Welcome to Verizon Massachusetts online, a great resource for news and information on how we serve you - our friends, neighbors and partners in business across the Bay State.
As a leading technology provider, we continue to invest more than a half billion dollars each year in new technologies that bring the best video, Internet and telephone service to our customers in Massachusetts. [ Read More ]
Featured Event:
The MIT Verizon Meetup
The Verizon FiOS team joined up with the MIT Enterprise Forum to test the full potential of completely connected homes powered with 100+mpbs downloads at the recent Digital Home Innovation Boston-Cambridge Meet-up. More than 160 entrepreneurs, developers, investors and other professionals converged at the Cambridge Innovation Center for this ecosystem event. Technology leaders from companies such as Cisco, Harvard Business School, Nokia, Harmonix, Sonos and the MIT Sloan School were also in attendance.
Attendees saw live demonstrations and learned how several start-up companies are building new products and services optimized for today’s high-speed IP-connected home. Demonstrations and informational sessions were presented by Sookbox, Q Factor Communications, Tomorrowish, ZoomTiltand Brass Monkey– all of whom are constantly redefining the standards for the connected home experience. [ Learn More ]
In the Community
Verizon continues to focus on the quality of life for Massachusetts residents by investing in a wide range of programs that strengthen education, raise awareness of domestic violence, and improve health care through the use of technology. [ Learn more ]
Community Spotlight: Assabet Valley High School - Marlborough, MA
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School is one of 12 schools across the nation designated as Verizon Innovative Learning Schools. The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program is designed to help teachers utilize technology and integrate mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, into classroom instruction to enhance student learning and achievement in STEM subjects. The International Society for Technology in Education and the Verizon Foundation have been working to design and deliver a comprehensive, year-long professional development program for teachers and administrators. [ Read the press release ]
Verizon Foundation President Rose Stuckey Kirk announces the Verizon Innovative App Challenge at Assabet Valley Regional Technical School in Marlboro, MA.
Rose Stuckey Kirk; Donna Cupelo of Verizon New England; and Justina Nixon-Saintil of the Verizon Foundation observe students using tablets in their science class.
U.S. Representative Niki Tsongas discusses the importance of STEM education. Assabet is one of 12 schools participating in the Verizon Innovative Learning School Program.
