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Re: Verizon forgets the history of how Rural America was wired. Actually, VZ itself was formed by a merger of Bell Atlantic (which had already acquired NYNEX) and GTE. The ILECs which formed the core of the Original Verizon were (northern to southern) New England Telephone (with the exception of SNET, which was never part of AT&T), New York Telephone, New Jersey Bell, Bell of Pennsylvania, Diamond State Telephone, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone of Maryland (and, prior to that, Maryland Telephone), Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone of the District of Columbia, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone of Virginia, and Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone of West Virginia.
The major inspiration for the formation of VZ had nothing to do with the future of local (or even long-distance) calls, but mostly to do with the Greater New York City Local Access Telecommunications Area. It is the largest LATA by area in the United States, and also one of the few that included multiple ILECs. Tthe merger talks started over straightening out rates for intra-LATA calls. |
