Exhibit 24.3

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

     WHEREAS, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter
referred to as the "Company"), has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a
registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") relating to
the issuance of up to 35,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company to Price
Communications Corporation and its affiliates.

     NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby appoints Charles R. Lee, Ivan G.
Seidenberg, Frederic V. Salerno and William F. Heitmann and each of them, his or
her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of
substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective
amendments, to the Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, making such changes
in the Registration Statement as such person or persons so acting deems
appropriate, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his, her or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 22nd day of May, 2002.


                                         /s/ Doreen A. Toben
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                                         Doreen A. Toben



                                POWER OF ATTORNEY


         WHEREAS, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC., a Delaware corporation
(hereinafter referred to as the "Company"), has filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, a registration statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement")
relating to the issuance of up to 35,000,000 shares of common stock of the
Company to Price Communications Corporation and its affiliates.


         NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby appoints Charles R. Lee, Ivan G.
Seidenberg, Frederic V. Salerno and William F. Heitmann and each of them, his or
her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of
substitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and
all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective
amendments, to the Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, making such changes
in the Registration Statement as such person or persons so acting deems
appropriate, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might
or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his, her or their substitute or
substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done or by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney
this 20th day of May, 2002.

                                              /s/ John F. Killian
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                                              John F. Killian