Verizon Strategic Direction Plan NETW 583 Poorva Gokhale Prof: Thomas Walsh October 10, 2017 Section 1 – Strategy CO F - Given an organizational and industry context, identify and suggest a deployment strategy that will facilitate the success of a technologically driven organization. Verizon Wireless is an American telecommunications company founded in 2000 out of a joint venture between Bell Atlantic and Vodafone. Currently Verizon has 146 million subscribers and is considered the largest wireless telecommunications provided in the US. With more than the third of US population subscribed to Verizon, they continue to lead the telecommunications industry by providing high quality products and services that no other telecommunications …show more content…
Thus, when travelling in areas where 4G LTE might not be available, the network will automatically switch over to the company’s 3G network. The company has made a brand of themselves by providing a network that is reliable and secure against tampering, hacking and malicious activities. The company uses their own internal resources to perform analysis as well as a third-party intelligence company to protect their network against dangerous activities from malicious malware. Verizon has also innovated their software to not only provide service in all areas and cyber protection but also provide a secure and fast network to its users. Due to the consistent innovation, it has become the leading telecommunications company in the US and beat other …show more content…
To keep up with the demand, Verizon expanded their infrastructure to meet the growing needs. Besides the introduction of the 4G LTE network, the company also innovated and introduced FiOS network. Verizon FiOS was a bundled internet, telephone and television service that operated over a fiber-optic network to over 5 million customers in the US. Though FiOS was introduced in 2005, Verizon innovated the idea and instead of providing use of fiber optics in the network’s backbone it carried the fiber optic service straight to the home. Initially the speed of the service peaked at 30 Mbit/s, where now it reaches 50 to 1000 Mbit/s in internet connectivity speed meaning faster downloads and