NYNEX

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NYNEX Corporation
Image:Nynex.png
Type	Defunct
Founded	1983
Headquarters	New York, New York, USA
Industry	Telecommunication
Products	Local Telephone Service, Cellular Telephone Service

NYNEX Corporation (pronounced Nine-x) was a telephone company which served five New England states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as New York. Formed January 1, 1984 as a result of the Bell System Divestiture, NYNEX was a Regional Bell operating company made up of former AT&T subsidiaries New York Telephone Company and New England Telephone. Hence, the name NYNEX stood for New York/New England, with the X representing the unknown future (or "the uneXpected"), according to advertising material ^[1], but the X is also widely believed to mean eXchange. Bell Atlantic bought NYNEX on August 14, 1997 in a stock deal, and moved their corporate headquarters from Philadelphia to New York City. On June 30 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE to form Verizon Communications.

NYNEX is now known as Verizon's "Northeast Bureau".

NYNEX also operated cable television and telephone services in the United Kingdom, with offices in Waterlooville, Hampshire, Baguley, Manchester, Shoreham-by-Sea, and Leatherhead, Surrey, England. In 1997 it was merged with Mercury Communications and cable operators Videotron and Bell Cablemedia and renamed Cable & Wireless Communications. Cable & Wireless's cable assets were sold to NTL in 2000. NTL as of 8th February 2007 rebranded as Virgin Media.

[edit] See also

• New York Telephone
• New England Telephone
• Verizon
• Bell System
• AT&T
• Western Electric

[edit] External links

• Verizon Communications
• History of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX

[edit] References

1. ^ Bell Atlantic Corporate History on Verizon Web site

v • d • e Spinoffs of American Telephone & Telegraph
1956: Bell Canada • Northern Electric 1984: Ameritech • Bell Atlantic • Bell Communications Research • BellSouth • NYNEX • Pacific Telesis • Southwestern Bell • U S West 1996: Lucent Technologies • NCR 2001: AT&T Broadband • AT&T Wireless
Second-Generation Spinoffs
AT&T Consumer Lease Services • Advanced American Telephones • Agere Systems • AirTouch • Avaya • Dex Media • Idearc • MediaOne Group • R. H. Donnelley Publishing & Advertising of Illinois • Telcordia Technologies • Teradata • Verizon New Hampshire • Verizon Maine • Verizon Vermont (pending)

v • d • e Verizon Communications, Inc.
Corporate Directors	James Barker · Richard Carrión · Robert Lane · Sandra Moose · Joseph Neubauer · Thomas O'Brien · Hugh Price · Ivan Seidenberg · Walter Shipley · John R. Stafford · Robert Storey
Holding Companies	GTE · MCI · NYNEX
Bell Operating Companies	Verizon Delaware · Verizon Maryland · Verizon New England · Verizon New Jersey · Verizon New York · Verizon Pennsylvania · Verizon Washington, D.C. · Verizon West Virginia · Verizon Virginia
GTE operating companies	Contel of the South · GTE Southwest · Verizon California · Verizon Florida · Verizon North · Verizon Northwest · Verizon South
Long Distance Services	Bell Atlantic Communications · NYNEX Long Distance
Wireless services	Verizon Wireless (55%)
Internet services	Verizon Online DSL · FiOS Internet
Video Services	FiOS TV
Other Assets	Empire City Subway
Annual Revenue: $75.1 billion USD (Image:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg FY 2005) · Employees: 216,704 · Stock Symbol: NYSE: VZ · Website: verizon.com