The second-biggest U.S. telephone carrier is planning to sell fixed-rate debt with maturities ranging from three to 30 years as well as two portions of floating-rate securities, said another person, who asked not to be identified because terms aren’t set. The sale would be more than twice the size of Apple’s Inc.’s unprecedented $17 billion issue in April, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Verizon is poised to pay a premium for the size of its sale, intended to finance a $130 billion purchase of Vodafone Group Plc’s 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless. A 10-year portion may pay a relative yield that’s 57 basis points more than investors demanded Monday for a benchmark Verizon bond due November 2022.

“With a deal this size they just want to get it done,” Jody Lurie, a corporate credit analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia, said in a telephone interview. “They would rather jump in now versus waiting a week and finding that rates are at a totally different level.”

In addition to the dollar offering, Verizon may sell debt denominated in euros, British pounds and possibly yen, analysts at Societe Generale SA wrote in a Sept. 8 report.

The offering is being managed by Barclays Plc, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley, Verizon said in regulatory filings.

Bob Varettoni, a Verizon spokesman, declined to comment on the sale.

Loans Sought

Verizon is also seeking $14 billion of loans to help back the deal, according to a person with knowledge of that transaction. A $6 billion term loan due in three years will pay interest at 1.375 percentage points more than the London interbank offered rate, while a $6 billion term loan maturing in five years will have a rate of 1.5 percentage points more than Libor, said the person, who asked not to be identified citing lack of authorization to speak publicly about the matter.

Libor, the rate at which banks say they can borrow from each other, was set today at 25.59 basis points. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point.

Verizon’s three-year fixed-rate notes may yield about 165 basis points more than similar-maturity Treasuries; the five- year debt may pay a spread of about 190 basis points; the seven- year securities may pay about 215 basis points; the 10-year debt may pay about 225 basis points; the 20-year notes may pay about 250 basis points; and the 30-year bonds may pay about 265, one of the people said.

The company may sell three- and five-year floating-rate notes, the person said.