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Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc.
Type	Holding of Verizon Communications
Headquarters	Philadelphia, PA, USA
Area served	Pennsylvania
Key people	President: William B. Petersen
Industry	Telecommunications
Products	POTS, DSL, FiOS (FTTP)
Parent	AT&T (Foundation-1983); Bell Atlantic/Verizon (1984-present)
Website	www.verizon.com

Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., formerly The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania or Pennsylvania Bell, who traded as Bell of Pennsylvania, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Pennsylvania. In 1984, the Bell System Divestiture split Bell of Pennsylvania off into a Regional Holding Company, along with the 21 other BOCs AT&T had a majority stake in. On January 1, 1984, Bell of Pennsylvania became part of Bell Atlantic.

Throughout the 1980s to the first half of the 1990s, Bell of Pennsylvania, also called Pennsylvania Bell, kept its traditional identity. In 1994, Bell Atlantic started rebranding all its companies to Bell Atlantic-(state), so Bell of Pennsylvania became Bell Atlantic - Pennsylvania, Inc. In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic-GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so Bell of Pennsylvania once again changed its name, this time to Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc.

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