Prepare to have your mind blown on two different levels. The first is that Verizon actually created something really cool which doesn't offer them profit of any kind!
The other level is what they created is pretty amazing! Creative Verizon engineers (with too much time?) made a virtual cell network inside of the game/crafting tool Minecraft that can actually communicate with the real world!
It's hard to wrap your head around that until you watch the video in the thread below, so hop right to it.
Thanks @johnomaz!