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In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE, which operated telecommunications companies across most of the rest of the country not already in Bell Atlantic's footprint. Bell Atlantic, the surviving entity, changed its name to Verizon, a portmanteau of veritas (Latin for "truth") and horizon. [12] In 2015, Verizon expanded into content ownership by ...
Verizon Communications owned 55 percent of Verizon Wireless while Vodafone retained 45 percent ownership. [6] Regulators with the Federal Communications Commission approved the Bell Atlantic–GTE merger on June 16, 2000, [17] creating the largest wireless company in the United States. [18]
Pace University. Ivan Seidenberg (born December 10, 1946) is the former chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. His telecommunications career began more than 40 years ago when he joined New York Telephone, one of Verizon's predecessor companies, as a cable splicer. He went on to lead Verizon from its inception in 2000, first as co-Chief ...
GTE.com. GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), [ 1] was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic; the combined ...
A look at the shareholders of Verizon Communications Inc. ( NYSE:VZ ) can tell us which group is most powerful...
The breakup of the Bell System resulted in the creation of seven independent companies that were formed from the original twenty-two AT&T-controlled members of the System. [ 5] On January 1, 1984, these companies were NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell Corporation, BellSouth, and US West. NYNEX, merged with Bell ...
Bell Atlantic used the Bell name and circled-bell trademark until renaming itself Verizon in 2000. Pacific Bell continued operating in California under that name (or the shortened "PacBell" nickname) until SBC purchased it. [citation needed] In Canada, Bell Canada (divested from AT&T in 1975) continues to use the Bell name.
In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE, which operated telecommunications companies across most of the rest of the country not already in Bell Atlantic's footprint. Bell Atlantic, the surviving entity, changed its name to Verizon, a portmanteau of veritas (Latin for "truth") and horizon. In 2015, Verizon expanded into content ownership by ...