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GTE operated in Canada via large interests in subsidiary companies such as BC Tel and Quebec-Téléphone. That division became known as GTE Internetworking, and was later spun off into the independent company Genuity to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements regarding the GTE- Bell Atlantic merger that created Verizon. The company acquired BBN Planet, one of the earliest Internet service providers, in 1997. through operating companies, much as American Telephone & Telegraph provided local telephone service through its 22 Bell Operating Companies. GTE provided local telephone service to many areas of the U.S. It owned Automatic Electric, a telephone equipment supplier similar in many ways to Western Electric, and Sylvania Lighting, the only non-communications-oriented company under GTE ownership. In 1991, it acquired the third largest independent, Continental Telephone ( ). The Wisconsin-based Associated Telephone Utilities Company was founded in 1926 it went bankrupt in 1933 during the Great Depression, and was reorganized as General Telephone in 1934.
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The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic the combined company took the name Verizon. GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System.
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Subsidiaries GTE Southwest / CODETEL / Verizon California / Verizon Florida / Verizon North / Verizon South / Hawaiian Telephone / Puerto Rico Telephone