Verizon proxies — live AS22394 mobile exits across the US

Verizon is the legacy signal

Before the T-Mobile merger Sprint completed and before AT&T became a media conglomerate and back, Verizon was the unquestioned #1 US wireless carrier — and the three-decade subscriber base built during that era is still the bulk of what AS22394 carries in 2026. For any integrity-scoring stack that weighted "Verizon = stable residential" from its training data, Verizon exits still read that way even if the carrier's market position has shifted.

As of end-2024 Verizon reported approximately 146M US wireless retail connections — still the single largest mobile subscriber base in the US at the time, though T-Mobile caught up during 2025. The key Verizon-specific trust signal is tightness: the carrier runs the most conservative CGNAT pool sizing of the three majors, typically fewer subscribers per public IPv4 than T-Mobile at the same level of traffic. That means sticky sessions hold slightly more consistently on Verizon than on T-Mobile, at the cost of less aggressive rotation opportunities.

The AS22394 / Cellco footprint

The legal entity that owns AS22394 is Cellco Partnership, d/b/a Verizon Wireless. It's the wireless-only ASN (distinct from Verizon Business or Verizon Fios fixed internet, which announce under other ASNs). AS22394 peers at every major US peering fabric: Ashburn (the densest), LA's 1 Wilshire, Chicago's CH1–CH4, Dallas Equinix, Atlanta Telx.

Verizon's geographic bias is clearly Northeast / Mid-Atlantic:

• New York: Verizon's legacy home market, still the densest wireless subscriber base.
• New Jersey: Verizon's corporate HQ (Basking Ridge) and the state with the highest Fios penetration in the country after Rhode Island.
• Massachusetts: dense New England subscriber concentration.
• Virginia: Ashburn-adjacent wireless density; significant federal-contractor subscriber base.
• Pennsylvania: strong throughout the Philadelphia metro.

Verizon also runs deep coverage in Southeast markets — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina — but it's not the carrier's home region and density there is more competitive with AT&T and T-Mobile.

Verizon's 5G story

Verizon's 5G strategy has been three-layer: mmWave (Ultra Wideband), C-band mid-band, and low-band DSS overlay on existing LTE spectrum. That's different from T-Mobile (which led with mid-band from the Sprint merger) and has meant Verizon's 5G coverage map looks more uneven — the best experience is inside dense urban cores where UWB deployments exist, good in mid-band C-band areas, and more-or-less 4G-equivalent in DSS-only markets.

Per Ookla Speedtest Connectivity H1 2025, Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband now reaches over 280M people, with the fastest peak speeds but narrower coverage than T-Mobile's mid-band footprint. Standalone 5G rollout on Verizon is behind T-Mobile's SA timeline; most Verizon 5G in 2026 is NSA anchored to LTE.

When Verizon is the right pick

• Sticky sessions on US mobile that need to hold for 15+ minutes without reassignment. Verizon's tighter CGNAT behaves better.
• Northeast-metro traffic where Verizon's subscriber-concentration bias makes it the statistically-expected carrier.
• Conservative-fingerprint workloads that weight "legacy carrier" positively.
• Sub-50ms Ashburn peering: Verizon's path into Ashburn is the shortest of the three majors.

Verizon Fios vs. Verizon Wireless

Worth calling out: Verizon Wireless (AS22394) and Verizon Fios (AS19262 among others) are different ASNs and different products. Proxaro separates them — the carrier page you're reading covers AS22394 mobile exits. Residential Verizon Fios is available on the residential pool with its own ASN behavior.

Pricing and pool access

Verizon ASN pinning is available on Carrier and above. Recommended starting state pools: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania.

References

• Verizon Q4 2024 Earnings: 146M wireless retail connections
• Ookla Speedtest Connectivity Report H1 2025: UWB coverage data
• peeringdb.com — AS22394 Cellco / Verizon Wireless network details
• bgp.tools AS22394 — prefix inventory