Verizon

(NYSE: VZ · $42.78 ▲ 2.7%) Verizon is a telecommunications company that provides mobile, home and business connectivity services, and it describes its purpose as powering and empowering how people live, work and play. Its service lines include mobile plans and devices, home services, offerings for small and medium businesses, enterprise solutions, public sector services and Verizon Connect. The company also works in broadband and fiber, the Internet of Things, managed security and multi-access edge compute, and it runs Innovation Labs and Verizon Ventures. This mix reflects a common pattern among large carriers, which pair consumer wireless subscriptions with network, security and edge services sold to organisations that depend on reliable data infrastructure.

Verizon reported $138.2B in revenue for 2025, and as a publicly listed company it publishes SEC filings, annual reports and governance information for investors. Its responsibility programs, presented under the Citizen Verizon name, cover digital inclusion, workforce development and AI skills training, community disaster resilience, sustainability and guidance for parents on children's digital lives. For a network operator, such programs connect naturally to its core business, since access to connectivity and digital skills shapes who can use its services.

Verizon calls its workforce the V Team, a community it describes as people who anticipate, lead and believe that listening is where learning begins. Its employer pitch centres on a place where staff can share ideas freely, even daring or different ones, and learn, grow and thrive, supported by day-one benefits, flexibility, financial perks and learning and development resources. Career paths range from finance and technology to retail sales and legal and public policy, a breadth typical of a carrier that runs both a store footprint and a large corporate function.