Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings, Inc. is a company created by
Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas i ...
in 2009.
History
The company, sold to
Frontier Communications on July 1, 2010, serves as a holding company for former
Bell System
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 hundr ...
,
Contel, and
GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing furth ...
telephone operating companies that were owned by Verizon prior to July 1, 2010. The company was set up to allow for a
Reverse Morris Trust merger, allowing Verizon to spin-off the company to Frontier tax-free. Its primary purpose was to transfer Frontier ILEC Holdings as well as Verizon debt that Frontier was to assume.
Once the purchase was completed, the relevant subsidiary company names were changed to reflect Frontier ownership.
Subsidiary companies
The company was founded as New Communications ILEC Holdings, Inc. to own the following companies transferred from Verizon and
GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing furth ...
:
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Contel of the South
ConTel Corporation (Continental Telephone) was the third largest independent phone company in the United States prior to the 1996 telecom deregulation. It was acquired by GTE in 1991.
History
In 1980, Contel purchased Network Analysis Corp, the ...
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New Communications of the Carolinas (split from
Verizon South)
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New Communications of the Southwest (split from
Verizon California
Frontier California, Inc. is a Frontier Communications-owned operating company providing telephone service in former Verizon regions. This included Southern California cities such as Long Beach, Seal Beach, Lakewood, Norwalk and Santa Monica. ...
)
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Verizon North
Verizon North LLC is a Verizon operating company providing local telephone service to former GTE customers in Pennsylvania.
History
In 2010, when the original Verizon North, whose service region included Pennsylvania, was sold to Frontier Communic ...
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Verizon Northwest
Northwest Fiber, LLC, doing business as Ziply Fiber, is an American telecommunications company based in Kirkland, Washington. Ziply is a subsidiary of WaveDivision Capital, a private investment company, which is also Kirkland-based. The company s ...
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Verizon West Coast
Frontier Communications West Coast, Inc. was a local telephone operating company owned by Frontier Communications through Frontier Communications Northwest serving the area around Crescent City, in Del Norte County, California.
It was founded ...
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Verizon West Virginia
Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
(originally part of
Bell System
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 hundr ...
)
The company was a part of a subsidiary called New Communications Holdings, Inc., a company that once sold to Frontier was then merged into the company.
References
{{AT&T Spinoffs
Frontier Communications
Verizon Communications
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 2009