Verizon Communications (VZ)

Parking is available in the Commonwealth Garage, which connects to the Hyatt Regency Louisville. The garage entrance is on Jefferson Street, between Third Street and Fourth Street. We will validate your parking ticket so that there will be no charge for parking.

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Electronic Voting Instructions

You can vote online or by telephone!

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Instead of mailing your proxy,you may choose one of the two voting methods outlined below to vote your proxy.

VALIDATION DETAILS ARE LOCATED BELOW IN THE TITLE BAR.

Vote online

Go online, log in and go to www.envisionreports.com/VZ

Follow the steps outlined on the secured website.

Vote by telephone

Call toll free 1-800-652-VOTE (8683) within the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico any time on a touch tone telephone. There is NO CHARGE to you for the call.

Follow the instructions provided by the recorded message.

Using an ink pen, mark your votes with an X as shown in this example. Please do not write outside the designated areas.X

Annual Meeting Proxy Card

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IF YOU ARE VOTING BY MAIL, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

A The Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR:

1. Election of Directors: For Against Abstain For Against Abstain For Against Abstain

01 - Richard L. Carrión 02 - M. Frances Keeth 03 - Robert W. Lane

04 - Sandra O. Moose 05 - Joseph Neubauer 06 - Donald T. Nicolaisen

07 - Thomas H. O’Brien 08 - Clarence Otis, Jr. 09 - Hugh B. Price

10 - Ivan G. Seidenberg 11 - John W. Snow 12 - John R. Stafford

For Against Abstain For Against Abstain

2. Ratification of Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 3. Advisory Vote Related to Executive Compensation

4. Approval of Long-Term Incentive Plan 5. Approval of Short-Term Incentive Plan

B The Board of Directors recommends a vote AGAINST:

For Against Abstain For Against Abstain For Against Abstain

6. Prohibit Granting Stock Options 7. Shareholder Ability to Call Special Meeting 8. Separate Offices of Chairman and CEO

9. Cumulative Voting 10. Shareholder Approval of Benefits Paid After Death

C Authorized Signatures — This section must be completed for your vote to be counted. — Date and Sign Below

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Verizon Communications Inc. 2009 Annual Meeting Admission Ticket

May 7, 2009, 10:30 A.M. Local Time Hyatt Regency Louisville 320 West Jefferson Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202

Upon arrival, please present this admission ticket at the registration desk.

DIRECTIONS TO VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC. ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

Hyatt Regency Louisville, 320 West Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202

From Louisville International Airport and the South: Take I-65 North to Louisville to the Brook Street Exit (exit 136B). At the bottom of the ramp stay on Brook Street until you come to Jefferson Street. Turn left on Jefferson Street, cross Third Street. The hotel motor lobby entrance will be immediately on your left.

From the Northwest: Take I-64 East to Louisville to the Ninth Street Exit (exit 4). Take the first left onto Market Street. Go six blocks to Third Street and turn right. Go one block to Jefferson Street and turn right. The hotel motor lobby entrance will be immediately on your left.

From the East: Take I-71 South to I-64 West to Louisville to the River Road/Third Street Exit (exit 5B). Go straight on Third Street to Jefferson Street. Turn right onto Jefferson Street. The hotel motor lobby entrance will be immediately on your left.

From the Northeast: Take I-65 South to Louisville to the Jefferson Street Exit (exit 136C). Stay to the right when the exit splits. Proceed straight on Jefferson Street, cross Third Street. The hotel motor lobby entrance will be immediately on your left.

Parking is available in the Commonwealth Garage, which connects to the Hyatt Regency Louisville. The garage entrance is on Jefferson Street, between Third Street and Fourth Street. We will validate your parking ticket so that there will be no charge for parking.

Your email address can now help save the environment. Vote online and register for electronic communications with the eTree® program, and we will plant a tree on your behalf.

IF YOU ARE VOTING BY MAIL, FOLD ALONG THE PERFORATION, DETACH AND RETURN THE BOTTOM PORTION IN THE ENCLOSED ENVELOPE.

Notice of 2009 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Proxy Solicited by Board of Directors of Verizon Communications Inc. for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Thursday, May 7, 2009, 10:30 a.m.

Your signature on the reverse side of this card appoints I.G. Seidenberg and M. Drost, as proxies, with the powers you would have if you were personally present at the meeting. This includes full power of substitution to vote all the shares of Verizon common stock that you hold of record upon all subjects that may properly come before the meeting, including the matters described in the Proxy Statement, subject to any directions indicated on the reverse side of this card. If you do not indicate how your shares are to be voted, the proxies will vote for the election of the nominees for Director: Richard L. Carrión, M. Frances Keeth, Robert W. Lane, Sandra O. Moose, Joseph Neubauer, Donald T. Nicolaisen, Thomas H. O’Brien, Clarence Otis, Jr., Hugh B. Price, Ivan G. Seidenberg, John W. Snow and John R. Stafford; and in accordance with the Directors’ recommendations on the other matters listed on the reverse side of this card; and at their discretion on any other matter that may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment of the meeting.

This card also provides your instructions for voting any shares that you may hold in the Verizon Communications Direct Invest Plan. Also, if you own shares in any Verizon savings plan in the same name as shown on this card, this card provides instructions to the savings plan trustee for voting those shares. To allow sufficient time for the savings plan trustees to tabulate the vote of the savings plan shares, you must vote by telephone or online or return this proxy in the enclosed envelope so that it is received by May 4, 2009.

If you do not properly sign and return a proxy, vote by telephone or online or attend the meeting and vote by ballot, your shares cannot be voted. Unless the Verizon savings plan trustees receive your voting instructions by May 4, 2009, your shares in any of the Verizon employee savings plans will be voted as described in the Proxy Statement.

If you are voting by mail, please sign the reverse side and return this proxy in the enclosed envelope. Please sign exactly as the name(s) appears on this proxy. If stock is held jointly, each holder should sign. If you are signing as an attorney, trustee, executor, administrator, custodian, guardian or corporate officer, please give your full title. If you vote by telephone or online, please do not mail your card.