Verizon Wireless held this market position until AT&T Wireless Services acquired Cingular Wireless in 2004. Regulators with the Federal Communications Commission approved the Bell Atlantic–GTE merger on June 16, 2000, creating the largest wireless company in the United States. Verizon Communications owned 55 percent of Verizon Wireless while Vodafone retained 45 percent ownership. In April 2000, the companies announced that the Bell Atlantic–GTE merger would take the name Verizon and that the Bell Atlantic–Vodafone wireless unit would be called Verizon Wireless (legally Cellco Partnership d.b.a. The joint venture was being created as Bell Atlantic underwent a merger with GTE Corporation. In September 1999, American phone company Bell Atlantic and British-based Vodafone Airtouch PLC proposed they would create a new wireless phone service joint venture valued at $70 billion. It is still seen on the front interior of many stores. Verizon's original logo, used from Apto September 1, 2015. Verizon Wireless announced in 2015 that it was developing a 5G, or fifth-generation, network. Its LTE in Rural America Program, with 21 rural wireless carriers participating, covers 2.7 million potential users in 169 rural counties. Verizon Wireless offers mobile phone services through a variety of devices.

population, which in the second half of 2020 won or tied for top honors in each category of the RootMetrics RootScore Reports. It operates a national 4G LTE network covering about 99 percent of the U.S. Verizon Communications became the sole owner in 2014 after buying Vodafone's 45-percent stake in the company. It was founded in 2000 as a joint venture of American telecommunications firm Bell Atlantic, which would soon become Verizon Communications, and British multinational telecommunications company Vodafone. The company is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Verizon is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 142.8 million subscribers at the end of Q4 2021. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business, and stopped using the Verizon Wireless name. Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless.

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