Verizon New Jersey
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| Company type | Holding of Verizon Communications |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1904 |
| Headquarters | Newark, NJ , USA |
Area served | New Jersey |
Key people | President: Dennis M. Bone |
| Products | POTS, DSL, FiOS (FTTP) |
| Parent | AT&T 1904-1983
Bell Atlantic 1984-2000 Verizon 2000-present |
| Website | www.verizon.com |
Verizon New Jersey, Inc., formerly New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, is the Bell Operating Company serving the U.S. state of New Jersey. In 1984, the Bell System Divestiture split New Jersey Bell off into a RBOC, along with the 21 other BOCs AT&T had a majority stake in. On January 1, 1984, New Jersey Bell became part of Bell Atlantic.
New Jersey Bell was founded in 1904 as an AT&T company serving southern New Jersey, Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Company. New York Telephone served northern New Jersey. In October 1927, D&A T&T changed its name to New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, and purchased the New Jersey properties of New York Telephone.
New Jersey Bell played an important role in the introduction of directly dialed Long distance telephone calls.
Throughout the 80s to the first half of the 90s, New Jersey Bell kept its traditional identity. In 1994, Bell Atlantic started rebranding all its companies to Bell Atlantic-(state), so New Jersey Bell became Bell Atlantic - New Jersey, Inc. In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic - GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so New Jersey Bell once again changed its name, this time to Verizon New Jersey, Inc. Verizon New Jersey's headquarters is the New Jersey Bell Building, 540 Broad Street, Newark, NJ.
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