Mr Matt
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| Add BSA sufix to Verizon's name.  As a student of telephone industry I am aware of some facts that most persons are not. Verizon evolved out General Telephone and Electronics (GTE). I see Verizon developing a Bell System Attitude. What has gone before: During the development of the telephone industry infrastructure AT&T directed their efforts to operating in large cities while GTE acquired their properties by buying up independent telephone companies in rural America. Verizon management appears to want to shed the holdings acquired by GTE in rural America and have been doing so over the last several years. |
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| IIRC, Verizon was actually a merging of 3 different operating companies, GTE as an ILEC/Independent telco, and 2 BOCs, Bell Atlantic and (NYNEX?). And now that they have sold off most of the GTE properties, they are the 2nd biggest RBOC, so when it comes to "developing a Bell System Attitude", TO LATE! |
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| It didn't happen all at once though. Bell Atlantic and NYNEX were two seperate RBOCs, in 1997 Bell Atlantic bought out NYNEX and kept the Bell Atlantic name. Three years later, Bell Atlantic merged with GTE and the Verizon name was born. |
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 NiarlanExcelsiorPremium
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Manville, NJ | reply to viperlmw
Actually Bell Atlantic and Nynex merged a couple of years prior to Verizon. Damn stationary suppliers were estatic....first Bell Atlantic...then Bell Atlantic Nynex....Then back to Bell Atlantic...at least on the Mobile side.
Then you add in GTE and Primeco and Airtouch on the wireless side when you merge to Verizon Wireless.
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said by Mr Matt: As a student of telephone industry I am aware of some facts that most persons are not. That sounds rather egotistical....
said by Mr Matt: Verizon evolved out General Telephone and Electronics (GTE). ....because you are not even correct on a basic fact.
Verizon's home territory in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states represents a merger of 2 of the 7 Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC's/BabyBells) that were created by the 1984 ATT/BellSystem breakup.
These two companies were BellAtlantic and NYNEX.
Yes, other companies came into the mix as well, including GTE and MCI.
But to repeat, Verizon's original home footprint, AND their management (!!) came from BellAtlantic and NYNEX---but ESPECIALLY BellAtlantic. |
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 Aggie DanStop... Reverse That.Premium
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Frisco, TX | reply to Mr Matt
You should stop sleeping through your history of telecom classes.
I actually lived through the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE. I can attest to the fact that even though it was described as a merger of equals, it was run as more of an acquisition of GTE by Bell Atlantic.
Do some research and look at who took the helm of the combined company. Was it the GTE CEO or the Bell Atlantic one?
Years later with the acquisition of MCI Business, it was more of the same. Everyone in that division was initially given a BAID (Bell Atlantic ID) just like the former GTE employees.
Verizon gained some good markets through the acquisition of GTE and gained a good portion of technical expertise. As an example, Verizon FiOS follows the provisioning processes developed by GTE.
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