Note: Prior-period amounts have been reclassified to reflect comparable results. See www.verizon.com/investor for reconciliations to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the non-GAAP financial measures included in this annual report. Verizon’s 2006 reported results include revenues and expenses from the former MCI, Inc., subsequent to the close of the merger in January 2006. Information provided in this annual report on a pro-forma (non-GAAP) basis presents the combined operating results of Verizon and the former MCI on a comparable basis. Discontinued operations include Verizon’s former directory publishing unit, which was spun-off to shareholders in the fourth quarter 2006, and the operations of Verizon Dominicana C. por A. and Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico Inc. following second quarter 2006 agreements to sell the businesses. The Verizon Dominicana sale closed in the fourth quarter 2006. Intra- and inter-segment transactions have not been eliminated from the business group revenue totals cited above.