New England Telephone
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New England Telephone was a Bell Operating Company that served most of New England as a part of the original AT&T for seven decades, from the creation of the national monopoly in 1907 until January 1, 1984, when AT&T was divested of its local operating companies. It became part of NYNEX on that date, and from 1994 the name was no longer officially used.
Through a variety of mergers and acquisitions its operations were successively part of NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Verizon. As of April 1, 2008, its operations in the three northern New England states were sold to FairPoint Communications under the operation of Northern New England Telephone Operations. Operations in southern New England remain with Verizon.
Headquarters of New England Telephone was in the Post Office Square area of the Financial District. As of 2007, the building is still used by Verizon Communications.
Its slogan and jingle was "We're the one for you, New England. New England Telephone."
Despite the similarity of names, it has no connection to New England Telephone and Telegraph, a short-lived company that dissolved in 1879, or Southern New England Telephone (SNET) which covered Connecticut and small parts of New York. (Verizon has operations in a small part of Connecticut, but that is considered part of New York Telephone.)
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