Verizon Maryland LLC is
Bell Operating Company owned by
Verizon Communications serving the state of
Maryland. Its headquarters are in
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was d ...
.
The company was founded in 1884 as The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City. It changed its name to The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland on January 3, 1956.
After AT&T's 1969
corporate identity overhaul, which included the famous
Saul Bass Bell logo, the name was shortened to C&P Telephone on marketing materials, bills, vehicles, etc.
In 1984, when the Bell System was divided into the
Regional Bell Operating Companies, or "Baby Bells", the C&P Telephone companies became part of
Bell Atlantic.
In 1994, Bell Atlantic renamed all of its operating companies. C&P Telephone of Maryland was renamed Bell Atlantic – Maryland, Inc.
After Bell Atlantic's merger with GTE in 2000, the system was renamed
Verizon, and so were its
Bell Operating Companies
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundre ...
. Bell Atlantic was renamed Verizon Maryland, Inc.
In December 2012, Verizon Maryland, Inc., incorporated in
Maryland, was merged into Verizon Maryland Merge Co., a Delaware corporation; the name of the Delaware-based company was then changed to Verizon Maryland LLC.
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Telecommunications companies of the United States
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Telecommunications companies established in 1884
Communications in Maryland