Verizon New Jersey

Verizon New Jersey, Inc.

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Company type	Holding of Verizon Communications
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 logo, 1921-1939

New Jersey Bell logo, 1921-1939

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.

Innovations and Firsts

• 1951 New Jersey Bell was the first Bell Operating Company to deploy direct dialed Long distance telephone calls in Englewood, NJ. Previously, all long distance calls had to be handled through an operator.
• 1965 The first installation of the first electronic switching system, the Western Electric 1ESS, was installed at New Jersey Bell's Succasuna central office. Prior to the 1ESS, switching was achieved electromechanically.

See also

• Bell System
• Verizon Communications