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Re: Add BSA sufix to Verizon's name. 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
join:2002-11-09
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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