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operating groups, focusing on its core businesses of telephone operations, information services, and publishing of telephone directories. With previous job cuts and announced future job cuts, Johnson was able to return GTE to profitability. Other new services provided under his leadership were GTE Mobilenet cellular telephone operations, Airfone air-to-ground telephone services, and the first voice, video, and data services community in Cerritos, California to test home banking, at-home shopping, home security, and pay-per-view television in 16,000 homes and 2,000 businesses.
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After a 1970 bomb attack to the company's headquarters in New York City, the company relocated to Stamford, Connecticut for their new headquarters. In 1971 GT&E undertook an identity change and became simply GTE, while Sylvania Electric Products became GTE Sylvania. The same year, Donald C. Power
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merged into General Telephone and was renamed to General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (GT&E). Power also obtained the purchases of multiple companies. such as Lenkurt Electric Company, Inc and Peninsular Telephone Company. In 1960, GT&E International Incorporated was created as a
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Under Johnson’s leadership, GTE divested its 50% ownership of U.S. Sprint, the nation’s third largest long distance company. He also orchestrated the sale of Sylvania and the merger with Contel, creating the 2nd largest telephone company in the United States. In 1989, GTE reorganized into six
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In 1934, General Telephone Corporation was established with John Winn as president. The following year, the company created General Telephone Directory Company as a division. During World War II, General Telephone helped install phone service for military facilities. From 1946 to 1950, General
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was named president of the company under chairman and long-time GT executive Morris F. LaCroix, replacing the retiring Harold Bozell (president 1940 – 1951). Power proceeded to expand the company through the 1950s principally through two acquisitions.
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In April 1992, James L. "Rocky" Johnson retired after 43 years at GTE, remaining on the GTE board of directors as chairman Emeritus. Charles "Chuck" Lee was named to succeed Johnson. In 1994, Lee sold the company's satellite provider,
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division of Verizon (including east coast service territories). The remaining smaller operating companies were sold off or transferred into the remaining ones. Additional properties were sold off within a few years after the merger to
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became a part of General Telephone and allowed the company to hold over 2 million telephone lines after the company merge. It also had a subsidiary, named the General Telephone and Electric Corporation, formed in 1930 with the
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in a project to create satellite stations. A few years later, the company's international branch was replaced by a GTE products company in 1976. Their products company remained until 1979. In 1979, GTE purchased
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In April 1988, after the retirement of Theodore F. Brophy, James L. "Rocky" Johnson was promoted from his position as president and chief operating officer to CEO of GTE; he was appointed chairman in 1991.
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branch company. Power was named C.E.O. and chairman in 1961, making way for Leslie H. Warner, formerly of Theodore Gary, to become president. Simultaneously, GT&E went on to buy
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optical system, which won over other manufacturer's systems in field trials, but ultimately proved to need too much maintenance. In the late 1970s the system was abandoned.
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Following the merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic, some of these companies and/or access lines have been sold off to other companies, such as
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Prior to GTE's merger with Bell Atlantic, GTE also maintained an interactive television service joint-venture called
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and Northern Ohio Telephone Company. At the end of the decade, ten million GT&E phones were active.
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In December 1983 Vanderslice stepped down as the company's president and chief operating officer.
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In the Caribbean, CONTEL purchased several major stakes in the newly independent countries of the
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Prior to the merger with Bell Atlantic, GTE owned the following operating companies in the US:
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General Telephone's holdings included 15 telephone companies across 20 states by 1951, when
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Telephone obtained over 100,000 telephone lines and bought out Leich Electric Company.
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GTE operated in Canada via large interests in subsidiary companies such as
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Bell Atlantic merged with GTE on June 30, 2000, and named the new entity
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became part of GT&E. Additional purchases during the 1960s included
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In the late 1960s, GT&E joined in the search for a railroad car
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Original Verizon logo introduced at the time of the acquisition
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retired and Leslie H. Warner became chairman of the board.
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Automated Car Identification system on a caboose in Florida
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was founded in 1926; it went bankrupt in 1933 during the
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Companies formerly listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
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Index

General Telephone
GTE (disambiguation)
GTE corporate logo, 1971–2000
Public
Bell Atlantic
Verizon Communications
Stamford, Connecticut
Subsidiaries
GTE Southwest
CODETEL
Verizon California
Verizon Florida
Verizon North
Verizon South
Hawaiian Telephone
Puerto Rico Telephone
GTE.com
independent telephone company
Bell System
Bell Atlantic
Verizon
Wisconsin
Associated Telephone Utilities Company
Great Depression
Continental Telephone
Automatic Electric
Western Electric
Sylvania Lighting
operating companies
American Telephone & Telegraph

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