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Verizon Pennsylvania LLC, formerly traded as Bell of Pennsylvania, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1879 as Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia , owned by National Bell Telephone Company , which later became American Bell.
The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania Western Headquarters Building (also known as the Verizon Building) is a structure at 201 Stanwix Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 12-story building, which was built between 1956 and 1957.
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of December 31, 2024.
Verizon still operates phone service in non-Bell System areas in Pennsylvania under Verizon North, and in non-Bell System areas in Virginia and Knotts Island, North Carolina under Verizon South. In September 2024, Verizon announced a deal to acquire Frontier, which will return much of the former GTE network to Verizon ownership. [21]
Cell One Kansas City: Owned and operated by Airtouch, morphed into Verizon at launch in 2000; Cellular One of Northeast Pennsylvania Wayne and Pike counties, Pennsylvania (South Canaan Cellular, owned by US Cellular until Verizon Wireless acquisition) [15] Verizon properties Originally acquired by Alltel prior to the January 2009 merger
The current company, Verizon North LLC, was created in December 2010 and absorbed the operations of Verizon North Retain Co. [3] It is separate from Verizon Pennsylvania which provides telephone service to former Bell System lines.
The agreement kept the Verizon name in place until 2024 when it was renamed in honor of contralto Marian Anderson, Philadelphia native and Civil Rights activist, on June 8. The name change was the result of a $25 million donation from Richard Worley and wife Leslie Anne Miller who are both former board members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and ...
Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business , and stopped using the Verizon Wireless name.