On the Record · Verizon
Verizon competitors, on the record
The companies Verizon names as competitors in its annual reports, 2022 to 2025, and the companies that name Verizon, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Verizon names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| AT&T Inc. | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| T-Mobile US, Inc. | 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Alphabet Inc. | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Apple Inc. | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Microsoft Corporation | 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| Charter Communications, Inc. | 2022, 2023 |
| Comcast Corporation | 2022, 2023 |
| DISH Network Corporation | 2022 |
In its own words
AT&T Inc., T-Mobile US, Inc.
Word for word“With respect to our wireless connectivity products and services, we compete against other national wireless service providers, including AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile US, Inc., as well as various regional wireless service providers.” 10-K for 2025
Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Microsoft Corporation
Word for word“For example, Microsoft Corporation, Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc. and others are offering alternative means for messaging and making wireless voice calls that, in certain cases, can be used in lieu of the wireless providers' voice service, as well as alternative means of accessing video content.” 10-K for 2024
Charter Communications, Inc., Comcast Corporation
Word for word“Resellers include cable companies, such as Comcast Corporation and Charter Communications, Inc., and others.” 10-K for 2023
DISH Network Corporation
Word for word“In addition, DISH Network Corporation has committed to deploy a facilities-based 5G broadband network in each of its license areas capable of serving at least 70% of the U.S. population by June 2023, which could result in additional competitive pressures in the U.S. wireless industry.” 10-K for 2022
Who names Verizon
Companies whose own annual reports name Verizon as a competitor.
Word for word“Certain wireline telecommunications companies, such as AT&T, Lumen and Verizon in the United States and BT and Virgin Media O2 in the United Kingdom, have built and are continuing to build fiber-based wireline network infrastructure further into their networks, which enables them to provide data transmission speeds that exceed those that can be provided with traditional copper digital subscriber line (“DSL”) technology, and are offering services with these higher speeds in many of our service areas.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Competition may also increase from large technology companies, such as Apple, Amazon (which acquired One Medical in February 2023), Facebook, Verizon, or Microsoft, who may wish to develop or expand their own telehealth solutions or partner with our other competitors, as well as from large retailers like Kroger, CVS Health Corporation (which signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oak Street Health in February 2023), Walgreens or Walmart.” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“Our residential video service also faces competition from large telecommunications companies, primarily Verizon, which offer wireline video services in significant portions of our operating areas.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our residential video service also faces competition from large telecommunications companies, primarily Verizon, which offer wireline video services in significant portions of our operating areas.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Some of our competitors in this category include subsidiaries of IBM, AT&T, Verizon, DXC Technology, Dell, Accenture and CGI Group.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“The wireless services industry has incumbent and established competitors such as Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, each with substantial market share.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“We compete with a number of national wireless carriers, including Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, all of which are significantly larger than us, serve a significant percentage of all wireless subscribers and enjoy scale advantages compared to us as the only nationwide MNOs in the United States.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Many of these companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, are substantially larger and have greater financial, technical, engineering, personnel, and marketing resources, longer operating histories, greater name recognition, and larger customer bases than we do.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“AT&T Inc. (“AT&T”) and Verizon are Charter’s primary FTTH competitors.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors in this industry at the enterprise level include Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, BT, ShoreTel and Google for hosted services solutions and IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon Business and regional integrated 15 service vendors for professional services.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“AT&T, CenturyLink, Frontier and Verizon are the incumbent local phone companies in our current markets.” 10-K for 2016
Read from Verizon’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-17. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.