Yes, Verizon is composed of the General Telephone half of the old GTE, plus the old Bell Atlantic.
I was a GTE employee and a GTE wireless customer at the time of the merger, so I heard through company communications how the new company was to be set up.
Now, Bell Atlantic in the late ‘90’s has the worst customer service in the entire telephone industry. Think New York, their base, and you understand. Bell Atlantic was buying a telephone company and wireless network that was substantially larger than what they already had, but they were putting their own top customer service people in charge.
A recipe for disaster for GTE’s customers.
Were you RIF'ed or volunteered to take a package?
Verizon has much more than the former GTE and Bell Atlantic Companies.
NYNEX, MCI, UUNet, Cybertrust and soon to be Alltel are just some of a host of companies ultimately merged into Verizon.