Verizon Business 1Q08 Revenues Topped $5B

(Business News & Technology News, 2 May 2008)

Global sales of strategic solutions again propelled Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications, to another quarter of solid year-over-year revenue growth as the company continued to execute well in the highly competitive multinational corporate and government marketplace. Verizon Business generated first-quarter 2008 revenues of $5.2 billion, up 0.4 percent compared with the same period last year on an adjusted basis (non-GAAP). This is Verizon Business' sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year, pro-forma revenue growth.

Global sales of strategic services such as IP, managed services, Ethernet and optical-ring services continued to drive strong growth, exceeding the decline in revenue during the quarter from traditional core voice and data services. In the first quarter 2008, strategic services generated $1.4 billion in revenue, up 23.5 percent from the first quarter 2007.

"These strong results show that our global strategy and strong focus on execution are working," says John Killian, President of Verizon Business. "As a leader in providing integrated communications and IT solutions to multinationals and governments, we will continue to invest in our global IP network, product set and deep professional services expertise."

Verizon Business continued to introduce new products and services that strengthen its ability to deliver an unsurpassed portfolio of integrated communications and computing solutions. The company has a strong focus on a broad range of business solutions including managed services, mobility, collaboration, security, applications management and professional services.

With the rollout of high-definition video conferencing, customers can benefit from clearer, crisper and higher-quality video delivered on Verizon Business' public and Private IP networks. Verizon Business also offered enterprise customers with remote locations or smaller networks a robust new managed services option with its support for Juniper J-series routers.

Verizon Business also expanded the availability of several key services globally during the quarter. It rolled out its managed local area network (LAN) service in a number of countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region, enabling customers there to fully or partially outsource end-to-end management of their corporate networks from the LAN to the wide area network (WAN). The company also expanded availability of its Hosted Interactive Voice Response (IVR) service to the European market, enabling improved contact center efficiency and enhanced overall customer satisfaction.

Further enhancing its robust suite of IT services, Verizon Business introduced a virtualization service that enables businesses to consolidate multiple IT resources such as operating systems and software applications on a single server while providing the same reliability as the traditional one-application-to-a-server model. The company also announced that its managed hosting customers will be among the first to benefit from the powerful new functionality of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, the next-generation server-operating system launched during the quarter.

Managed security services also continued to be a key area of focus during the quarter. The company unveiled a range of new global "unified threat management" offerings that combine numerous critical security functions into a single piece of equipment. Additionally, the company rolled out its Application Log Monitoring and Management Service, enabling customers to log, track and analyze user and system activity across an organization¡¯s entire IT "stack"—the computing structure that includes the network, data, application and user layers.

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