Verizon provides sophisticated, integrated communications solutions to large business customers by leveraging the strength of our wireline and wireless networks.

Our strategy is to build on our strong existing customer relationships and use our ability to carry interstate voice and data traffic to grow our share of the large-business, education and government markets. We are investing for growth by expanding our advanced, high-speed wireline data network to major markets across the country. We also have the nation’s biggest and most reliable wireless voice and data network. We are launching a number of services tailored for the business market, such as the EV-DO technology behind Verizon Wireless’s new BroadbandAccess service, and wireless remote access. For smaller businesses, the expanded capabilities of our SuperPages.com online directory give advertisers an effective way to reach more customers by offering them a Web presence and a greater ability to be found in local Internet searches when customers are ready to buy.

To grow our share of the large-business market, we have launched a major network expansion called Enterprise Advance, which builds on our close customer relationships with Fortune 1000 companies. Enterprise Advance not only expands the geographic reach of existing products – such as long-distance, data, fiber rings and optical transport – but also introduces new, Internet-protocol services such as voice-over-IP and virtual private networks. With this expanded capability, we can offer customers greater speeds, more bandwidth, and the increasing flexibility to merge and manage their voice and data traffic on a single network. We anchor this offer with our unsurpassed record of service and reliability.

As a result of our increased focus on this important marketplace, Verizon is gaining market share among large business customers. By transforming from a local carrier to a national carrier, Verizon is creating a promising new growth market and providing additional value to our largest customers.

Verizon is fast becoming an “all-distance” company in the eyes of our customers. Large businesses are now turning to Verizon when looking for a communications partner that can provide local, long-distance and wireless services, with the expertise to design and manage their most sophisticated data networks.