Portal

CF: Could you tell us more about what this new portal entails?

WT: There used to be so many ways to come to Verizon, so many ways to send us orders, so many ways to engage. We’re as close as we’ve ever been to having it under one umbrella with one doorway into Verizon. But it allows you to get access not only to ordering, which is important, but to the ways that you could be using the technology solutions that we may be even doing on our direct side. One of the interesting things is, there is very little that a customer could come up with that we haven’t explored with someone else. It’s an advantage to being a company our size with the level of relationships and the depths of years we’ve had together with customers. If you’re thinking about it, we’ve probably got a way to do it.

So the portal gives you a chance to see some of that, and as we launch things like our new podcast series, you’ll get to hear from some of our leaders about things they’re doing, what’s on their mind and where we’re going next. Because if there is one thing that I think we’re all clear about, we are all going to have to be continuous learners if we’re going to navigate the new future. And we’re opening up the podcast to make that a little easier for our partners and for our customers.