Frontier Communications Northwest

Frontier Communications Northwest, Inc. is a former Verizon operating company owned by Frontier Communications.

History

GTE Ownership

Verizon Northwest was founded in 1964 as the General Telephone Company of the Northwest, Inc. and later became GTE Northwest, Inc.

GTE Northwest originally served Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington. GTE, unlike the Bell Operating Companies, transferred states from operating company to operating company. GTE Northwest changes are as follows:

• In 1993, GTE acquired Continental Telephone (ConTel); as a result, ConTel operations in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho were placed under control of GTE Northwest.
• In 1994, GTE sold ConTel of Idaho to Citizens Communications (which later became Frontier Communications).
• In 1995, GTE sold operations in Montana to Citizens Communications, and absorbed ConTel of Oregon into GTE's existing Oregon operations.

Verizon ownership

In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE, forming Verizon. As a result, GTE Northwest was renamed "Verizon Northwest, Inc." It continued to provide local telephone service to former GTE regions and some ConTel regions in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.

Sale to Frontier

Verizon Northwest, along with several other Verizon wireline operating companies, were acquired by Frontier Communications on July 1, 2010.^[1] The company's name was changed to Frontier Communications Northwest, Inc. In a way, this reunites former regions in Idaho & Montana (such as ConTel of Idaho) with its former operating company.

References

Sources

• Verizon Northwest, Inc.