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John 'CZ' Czwartacki

John 'CZ' Czwartacki, Executive Director - External Communications
John "CZ" Czwartacki directs a range of external communications efforts, including serving as "Blog Editor" for the company's first web log and as coordinator of outreach to digital and other select media. Follow him on Twitter! He is @CZ.
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Connections, Food Fights and the Competitive Internet Ecosystem
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on January 12, 2012, 03:04 PM EST
This was first posted today at Verizon’s At Home blog, where I’ve also placed posts about potential, delivery, and innovation – each related to what I’m seeing on-the-ground from the Consumer Electronics Show this week. Here at CES, it’s a mad house.  I walked the floor Wednesday with thousands of my closest friends, looking for “the next big thing.”I found something better.Thousands of gadgets, hundreds of e-tools, and scores and sores of connected devices.  With some pride I noted how much of... Read More
Running Out of Bandwidth
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on October 24, 2011, 04:45 PM EST
This weekend on the Op-ed pages of The New York Times, Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam outlined the tremendous benefit of, and pressing need for, making more wireless spectrum available.  See the link or read below.  ===================================================================Running Out of BandwidthBy LOWELL C. McADAMPublished: October 21, 2011 AT a time of slow economic growth and declining competitiveness, wireless technology remains a shining example of innovation. In the last 10 years,... Read More
A Picture Worth Four Billion Words
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on September 15, 2011, 01:28 PM EST
In addition to the bevy of our marketplace challengers and direct and indirect competitive pressures in our corner of the Internet Ecosystem, there is this.  While consumer demand for the services provided on our world-class networks has never been higher, there are some areas – like home landlines – that are declining as more consumers use other platforms, such as text, social networks, and wireless, to communicate.Couple that landline decrease with the rising cost of health care and you get…... Read More
Nation’s Top Business Leaders Call on Washington to Act *Now*
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on July 29, 2011, 10:45 PM EST
Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon’s CEO and Chairman, has joined 17 of his fellow business leaders in calling on Members of Congress and the President “to enact legislation now that lifts the debt ceiling with a serious plan that puts America on a true path to a sound fiscal future.” Linked here and pasted below is the full letter sent by the Business Roundtable today. [Don’t miss the series of blogs Verizon’s Tom Tauke is writing on the national debt crisis.  The first six are here, here, here, here,... Read More
A Call to Reason and Action -- An Open Letter to America's Elected Leaders
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on July 26, 2011, 03:07 PM EST
In addition to the series of blog posts written by our own Tom Tauke on the looming national debt crisis, Verizon is a signatory on an “open letter to America’s elected leaders.” The letter can be found here and is pasted below.   A Call to Reason – And Action An Open Letter to America's Elected Leaders  Dear Mr. President and Members of Congress,  We work on behalf of millions of Americans from all walks of life who are "invested in America." They are leaders of businesses large and small that... Read More
Video: Universal Service and Intercarrier Compensation: Will the FCC Finally Bite the Reform Bullet?
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on July 22, 2011, 02:49 PM EST
I just wanted to share the video of a Free State Foundation seminar that took place on July 13, 2011.  Verizon’s very own Tom Tauke joins a distinguished panel to discuss this complex but important... Read More
Passport, Check. Tickets, Check. Wireless Device, Check This Out.
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in PolicyBlog on July 22, 2011, 12:13 PM EST
With so many people traveling overseas these day, for both business and pleasure, my Verizon colleague here in DC Ian Dillner points out these useful resources. As we approach the peak of summer vacation season and Americans pack their bags for exciting trips around the globe, we applaud the FCC for informing consumers about wireless use when travelling abroad.  The FCC has developed a useful website and outreach materials for travelers that compiles basic resources and suggestions for ways... Read More
Verizon’s EVP for Public Affairs to Blog on the "Severe Threat" our National Debt Crisis Poses
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on July 19, 2011, 02:33 PM EST
In a letter delivered July 12 to President Obama and Members of Congress, 470 U.S. business leaders, including Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg and nearly 400 CEOs of leading American companies, said:“We believe it is vitally important for the U.S. government to make good on its financial obligations and to put its fiscal house in order.”“. . . it is critical that the U.S. government not default in any way on its fiscal obligations.”“This is a Main Street not Wall Street issue. Treasury... Read More
Video: The State of the Wireless Marketplace
User PhotoJohn 'CZ' Czwartacki posted in Policy on July 19, 2011, 11:45 AM EST
The wireless marketplace has changed a lot with the surge of wireless subscriptions. Consumers not only choose based on wireless network, but also consider who makes their favorite device, has the best social networking applications, video capabilities, and so much more. Players fiercely compete and sometimes collaborate, but all to satisfy today's consumer.    The following animation tells that story, a story all of us have lived through these last 15... Read More
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