[Fungi]

Verizon is the old “General Telephone.” There was an old TV commercial where during a party, a woman asks her husband to say something funny. He replies by saying:”General Telephone” and everyone erupts in laughter. They sucked then, just as they do now.

[meatloaf]

Don’t forget Bell Atlantic too.

[PAR35]

Verizon is the old “General Telephone.”

Verizon used to be GTE. They've dumped almost all the old GTE into Frontier. For landlines, about all they have left now are the old Baby Bells of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. Because they are sure that New England will be a stronger growth market than is Texas and the rest of the Sunbelt.

I will say that Verizon FIOS was a bit more reliable than Frontier FIOS, although Verizon managed to unintentionally cut off service one time to an entire city of a quarter of a million folks.

As for Verizon wireless, they have only fully owned that since 2014. Before that, almost half of Verizon Wireless was owned by a British company.