Verizon Chops landlines

[Juan]

Verizon sells big chunk of old-line phone business for $8.6B - NJ.com

Mostlly former GTE (Includes fios in those areas)

 

[SamCdbs]

This is interesting. The short summary is that after the Bell breakup of 81 and the subsequent mergers, Verizon ended up with the old Bell system from Virginia north to Maine, and GTE, (which had previously bought Contel and Centel) 's random places in the rest of the country. With this sale, combined with others previously, Verizon ends up selling its landline business (so called "POTS" - plain old telephone service) in the all of the GTE states, except parts of California, and the four most rural of its core states (ME, VT, NH and now WV). Mostly GTE and the other "non-Bell" companies had small towns, but not all. Working from memory, Tampa, Raleigh-Durham, Myrtle Beach, Lexington, and other places.

This leaves Verizon, as a POTS company, with NY, NJ, PA, DE, DC, VA, MD, and a few places in CA.

For Frontier customers? Take a picture of your phone (and internet etc) service. It will not change for decades.