Short answers, pulled from the story.
Verizon Communications changed its name on the 20th of June 2000. This date marked the final approval of the merger between Bell Atlantic and GTE by the Federal Communications Commission.
Bell Atlantic Corporation served six states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The company operated these regions from its headquarters in Philadelphia.
Verizon acquired AOL for approximately four point four billion dollars at fifty dollars per share. This transaction occurred in 2015 before the company purchased Yahoo! Inc one year later.
Verizon received a forty-seven-million-dollar fine in April 2024 for sharing real-time location data illegally. This penalty followed investigations into privacy violations involving customer information.
Verizon launched Fios Internet service in Keller, Texas during 2004. The fiber optic system initially expanded to seven states offering over three hundred fifty channels by January 2006.