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'''Verizon Communications ''' is the second largest telephone company in the United States, following [[AT&T]]. It was formed in 2000 with the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation. It offers traditional [[landline]] [[telephone]] service, [[DSL]], and a [[fiber to premises]] service known as FiOS, which carries phone, internet, and [[cable television]] services. The company is currently headquartered in [[New York, New York]]. Verizon received a taxpayer bailout in 2008-09.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html Washington Post; Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms]</ref>