Phone co. of yore

• Defunct telecom giant
• It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon
• Onetime Sprint competitor
• Associated Telephone Utilities, later
• Merged comm. giant
• Old inits. in telecommunications
• Onetime Bell Atlantic rival
• A Verizon predecessor

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GTE Corporation , formerly General Telephone & Electric Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System . The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than ...