Verizon New Jersey
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Verizon New Jersey, Inc., formerly New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, is the
New Jersey Bell was founded in 1904 as an AT&T company serving southern New Jersey, named Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Company.
Throughout the 1980s to the first half of the 1990s, New Jersey Bell kept its traditional identity. In 1994, Bell Atlantic started rebranding all its companies to Bell Atlantic-(state), so New Jersey Bell became Bell Atlantic - New Jersey, Inc. In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic - GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so Bell Atlantic - New Jersey once again changed its name, this time to Verizon New Jersey, Inc. Verizon New Jersey's headquarters are in the New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building on 540 Broad Street in Newark.
Innovations and firsts
After Bell Labs moved from New York to New Jersey, they often installed new technological developments there, before deploying farther afield.
- 1951 New Jersey Bell was the first Bell Operating Company to deploy long-distance telephone calls in Englewood, New Jersey. Previously, all long-distance calls had to be handled through an operator.[2]
- 1965 The first installation of the first 1ESS switch, switching was achieved under electromechanical control.[3]
- 1987 New Jersey Bell was the first to introduce AT&T.[4]
- 2006 Verizon New Jersey was the first company to file application for a video franchise under New Jersey's new centralized video franchise law. Previously, cable television providers had to file with every municipality in which they wished to provide service individually, thus making Verizon New Jersey the state's first statewide competitive "cable company".[5]
See also
- Bell System
- Verizon Communications
References
- ^ NY&NJT&T
- ^ AT&T: History: Milestones in AT&T History
- ^ "Lucent | Discoveries". Archived from the original on July 7, 2000. Retrieved December 6, 2006.
- ^ Control first, safety second, Caller ID has matured at 10
- ^ Verizon to File First Application Under New Jersey's New Pro-Consumer Video Franchise Law