Verizon customers connect with friends and family in Taiwan for free following Super Typhoon Nepartak

NEW YORK, July 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/-- More than 170,000 Verizon employees worldwide want to support our friends and family in Taiwan who have been impacted by Super Typhoon Nepartak. Verizon is offering free wireless and wireline calling from the U.S. to Taiwan to connect with family and friends.

• Home wireline telephone customers will incur no charges to Taiwan from their U.S. landlines on July 8 through 10, 2016 (applicable taxes and surcharges will apply).
• Wireless users will incur no charges for texts or international long distance calls originating from the U.S. to Taiwan on July 8 through 10, 2016 (applicable taxes and surcharges will apply).

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) employs a diverse workforce of 177,700 and generated nearly $132 billion in 2015 revenues. Verizon operates America's most reliable wireless network, with more than 112 million retail connections nationwide. Headquartered in New York, the company also provides communications and entertainment services over America's most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers worldwide.

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Media contact:
Jeffrey Nelson
908.559.7519
[email protected] 
Twitter: @JNels

Jessica Shih
908.559.1741
[email protected]

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