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The history of Verizon New Jersey dates back to 1885 when the company evolved from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company that is today known as AT & T. The company got incorporated from 1927 to 1984 as a subsidiary of AT & T and came to be known as New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. In 1929 this company moved into its new headquarters at 540 Broad Street that is located in Newark, NJ. The home of the company till today is Broad Street. On January 1st 1984, the federal court’s divestiture of AT & T resulted in the company becoming a wholly owned operating entity of Bell Atlantic Corporation that was one of the seven “Baby Bell Companies” of those times. The Company used the name of New Jersey Bell till 1994. After this year the name of the company was changed to Bell Atlantic- New Jersey (BA-NJ).

In the year 1997 in the month of August, Bell Atlantic acquired Nynex, and went on to become the second largest telephone company in the USA. In 1998, Bell Atlantic planned to merge with GTE and on June 3rd 2000, Bell Atlantic and GTE completed the merger. Prior to this merger on April 3rd 2000, both these companies selected the name “Verizon” for the company. After the merger was fully completed, Verizon Communications was born. This company went on to become a formidable competitor in global communications.

Another significant development in the history of Verizon took place on the 14th of February, 2005 when it agreed to acquire MCI. The share holders of MCI approved of the merger on October 6th. The State, Federal and the International regulatory bodies also approved of this merger by the end of 2005. The merger closed on January the 6th and the total amount of the transaction amounted to approximately $8.5 billion. The new business unit was called the “Verizon Business”. Today Verizon Business caters to both government and business customers. It also provides services to the former functions of MCI and those businesses that were formerly a part of the Domestic Telecom that also includes the Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group.

Another development on October 18th 2006 saw Verizon announced that its Board of directors had approved the divestiture of Verizon’s U.S print and internet yellow pages Directory Company and this resulted into a new company called Idearc Inc. On June 2007 Verizon enjoyed the patronage of more than one million customers across the nation.

Verizon deals in both telecom and wireless communication and is a global leader across the nation today. It offers voice, data and video services to home and business customers in 25 states and Washington DC. The major aim of Verizon is to be the customer’s first choice for both the communication and telecommunication industry. The company today is using the most advanced fiber optical network and is currently offering Verizon FiOS, Internet, TV and voice services over a high speed connection. Verizon Telecom and Verizon Wireless now offer a combined calling plan that combines both Wireless and Telecom services.

City:	Newark
State:	New Jersey
Zip Code:	07114
County:	Essex
County Population:	791057
Time Zone:	Eastern

Type:	Landline
Date of registration:	06/07/1997
Time:	05/29/2013 10:12:39 AM
Rate Center:	Newark
Switch CLLI:	NWRKNJ02DS5
OCN:	35620