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Verizon Maryland LLC is

Verizon Communications serving the state of Maryland. Its headquarters are in Baltimore
.

The company was founded in 1884 as The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City.[1] It changed its name to The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland on January 3, 1956.[2]

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

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

Bell Operating Companies
. 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.[3]

References

  1. ^ Verizon
  2. ^ Maryland Secretary of State Archived August 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Articles of Merger". Retrieved 2013-01-29.