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Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is one of the world's leading providers of wireless and wireline-based communication services including broadband, data, network access and global internet protocol (IP) Services. In their latest full fiscal year the company reported revenues of $110, 875 million with an operating profit of $12,880 million during FY2011 (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). At present the company has 192,000 employees and operates in 150 nations both in a franchised and direct selling model (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of Verizon are the basis of this analysis. Strengths Verizon continues to have a commanding market presence globally with one of the most profitable brands in the telecommunications industry (Brown, 2010). The strength of their brand has given the company the ability to manage customer churn more effectively than competitors, reducing the relative churn rate of customers by 56% over the last three years while competitors have seen churn rates increase by over 67% (Verizon Investor Relations, 2012). The combination of the Verizon brand stability and customer loyalty has given the company a unique level of stability in a very turbulent global telecommunications market (Zoakos, 2002). Another significant strength of Verizon is their ability to orchestrate and complete alliances, mergers and questions quickly. They have also been one of the few telecommunications companies to pioneer the development of effective shared-risk mergers that drastically reduce the downside risk of being an industry consolidator, a role they continue to take on globally (Peaks, Arbogast, O'Keefe, 2009). The well orchestrated acquisition of Alltel by AT&T that Verizon played a central role in is a case in point (Seidenberg, 2002). Verizon also is moving aggressively into new markets including cloud computing using their core strengths in mergers and acquisitions. An example of this strength is the company's recent $1.4B acquisition of Terremark (Ya, 2011). Verizon continues to aggressively and successfully pursue an inorganic growth strategy by concentrating on mergers and acquisitions to bring greater cloud-based innovations to their customers (Gorski, 2005). Verizon continues to also seek out opportunities to define advanced e-commerce encryption standards globally, looking to become the global e-commerce platform at the infrastructure level for enterprises (Everett, 2012).

This paper is a fictional letter to Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell. The purpose is to share with him the significance of two pieces of American 20th Century literature about racism in America: How It Feels to Be Colored Me (Hurston, 1928)and Just Walk on By (Staples, 1986). It suggests that the senator's continued opposition to the President after his re-election will forever place him on the wrong side of history because his fanatical opposition is quite obviously a function of racism among his political constituents.

The job of a firefighter is to do everything professionally possible to protect lives and property. And while the safety of the public is a primary concern, a firefighter's own safety is also of great importance, since…

President Bush has recently supported the idea that the United States is winning the global war on terror. To support this assertion, he pointed out to the fact that 9/11 was the only terrorist threat to occur on the…

Are the Federal Laws against Medical Marijuana Constitutional?

This report is a combination book review, autobiographical evaluation and political and social review. That is because the work will compare and contrast two very great men in American history: W.E.B.

US Supreme Court case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition

This paper analyzes the relation of the U.S. dollar to oil and the economy. The relationship is primarily based on the merger of state and corporate power, also known as Fascism. Wall Street speculators have gotten government permission to act as hedgers; corporations have military support in the Middle East; and the Fed is devaluing the dollar.

Fundamental objective of this study is to reveal the effectiveness of communication within a group. Effective communication has enhanced cohesiveness within the group, and by using the technology systems such as email, phone, and instant messaging to communicate, the group was able to achieve its goals. An effective method that the team used to communicate was through instant messaging and face-to-face conversation, and the entire team member met twice in a week to discuss the solution. With effectiveness of communication, the team was able to reach a solution.

Thesis: President Obama has announced a draw-down of troops from Afghanistan, mainly, it seems, due to the apparently unwinnable aspect to the conflict, because 1,870 U.S. troops have already died, because public opinion clearly has turned against the American involvement in the conflict, because of corruption by the Karzai regime, and because of the need to keep his promise to have the troops home by 2014.