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IN-HOUSE IMPACT AWARD

ABOVE FROM LEFT, DAVID HUBBARD,
VANDANA VENKATESH,
JUNE CASALMIR AND MIKE MORANO,
COUNSEL FOR VERIZON

Verizon business navigate these requirements

and those in the Emergency Broadband
RESPONSES PREPARED BY THE VERIZON CONSUMER GROUP LEGAL TEAM Benefit program, both of which helped
Verizon serve hard-hit communities.
We also worked hand-in-hand with
Q&A What are some of your changes and shifts and shared infor- our Sales Operations clients, State &
mation with clients quickly, which then
Government Affairs counterparts and
most satisfying successes
of the past year and why? This past allowed Verizon to not only meet the with enterprise-wide crisis management
year, the Verizon Consumer Group Legal requirements of the FCC’s Keep Ameri- response teams to implement the mul-
team focused on authentic and trans- can Connected pledge, but exceed them. tiple state and local shelter-in-place
parent relationships. This positioned We added wireless high speed data allot- orders and reopening mandates that
our team to lead in the service of cus- ments, temporarily removed data caps applied to our 1400+ company-owned
tomers, employees, shareholders, and for DSL and FIOS broadband Internet stores. We advised the business in imple-
our community at large throughout the plans, and supported school districts menting social distancing protocols and
pandemic. We anticipated regulatory and small businesses. We helped the face covering orders, exemptions, and

100 October 2021 | Photo: Ryland West/ALM