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| Type | Holding of Verizon Communications |
| Founded | 1896 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY, USA(shared with Verizon corporate headquarters) |
| Area served | New York, Southwest Connecticut |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Products | POTS, DSL, FiOS (FTTP) |
| Employees | 26,800 (2005) |
| Parent | AT&T (1896-1983) NYNEX (1984-1997) |
| Subsidiaries | Empire City Subway |
| Website | www.verizon.com |
The New York Telephone Company (NYTel) was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need Verizon FiOS, sometimes simply FiOS which stands for " Fi ber O ptic S ervice", is an Internet telephone and TV service that is presently Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and NYNEX Corporation (pronounced Nine-x) was a Telephone company which served five New England states ( Maine, Massachusetts, A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity Empire City Subway is a company in New York City which is responsible for maintaining underground conduits in Manhattan and The Bronx, and the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The City of New York Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and
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Predecessor companies
The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876 to rent telephone instruments to users, who were expected to provide wires to connect them, for example from factory to office. Such connections already existed for private telegraphs, and the new invention promised to save the cost of hiring a private telegraph operator. Manufacturers of steel wire for the Brooklyn Bridge then under construction were especially prominent among the customers under this scheme, using their own product. The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest Suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5989 feet (1825 m over the East River connecting the
Western Union subsidiaries, including Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph, Gold and Stock Telegraph, and American Speaking Telephone, based their New York and San Francisco operations on the telephone exchange principle and thus were larger and more advanced than the local Bell operations. The Western Union Company ( is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. In the field of Telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls Under the November 1879 settlement of the Elisha Gray patent infringement lawsuit, Western Union handed over its telephone operations to National Bell Telephone, which then renamed itself American Bell Telephone. Elisha Gray (August 2 1835 &ndash January 21 1901 was an American electrical engineer and is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in The merged local company was called the Metropolitan Telephone Company and in 1896 the New York Telephone Company.
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) eventually acquired a controlling interest. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and
Firm Foundation
The company went underground in a big way in the 1920s, creating expensive new outside plant that fixed its geometry for the century to come. In Telecommunication, the term outside plant has the following meanings In civilian Telecommunications, all cables conduits ducts poles New cable ducts brought more reliable service to customers. They converged at approximately twenty wire centers, which were connected by larger trunk cable ducts running along the East and West Sides of Manhattan. This is about the network-design strategies for riding in auto cargo space see Trunking (auto, and for the UK term for electrical wireways see Electrical conduit#Trunking The locations were a mile or two apart (2-3 km}, close to concentrations of office workers without paying prime prices for land. At each wire centre a new central office arose to house telephone switchboards, panel switches and other inside plant, and technicians, clerks, operators and other workers. In the field of Telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls A switchboard (also called a manual exchange) was a device used to connect a group of Telephones manually to one another or to an outside connection within and between The panel switching system was an early type of Automatic telephone exchange, first put into urban service by the Bell System in the 1920s and removed during the 1970s In Telecommunication, the term inside plant has the following meanings All the cabling and equipment installed in a Telecommunications facility, The largest of these was also the corporate headquarters, at 140 West Street on the Lower West Side, about a kilometer (half mile) from AT&T HQ at 195 Broadway. The Verizon Building is a 32-story Art Deco building in New York City, located in Lower Manhattan.
The Manhattan and Bronx parts of the underground empire are owned by the Empire City Subway Company subsidiary. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Empire City Subway is a company in New York City which is responsible for maintaining underground conduits in Manhattan and The Bronx, and the Similar construction, on a smaller scale, went on in Brooklyn, Buffalo and other urban areas. Buffalo (ˈbʌfəloʊ is the second largest city in New York State. Suburban and rural service also expanded, mostly with aerial cable or open wire plant and Strowger switches.
Service crisis
Forecasters in the late 1960s underestimated demand, resulting in a shortage of capacity in Manhattan, NYTel's principal profit area. Customers had to wait weeks for a new line or a repair, and sometimes minutes for dial tone on an existing line. The new 1ESS Stored Program Control exchanges had software bugs that kept them from carrying full load. The Number One Electronic Switching System, the first large scale Stored Program Control (SPC Telephone exchange or Electronic Switching System in the Deferred maintenance choked MDFs with dead jumpers. In Telephony, a Main Distribution Frame ( MDF or Main Frame) is a signal Distribution frame for connecting equipment ( Inside plant) There weren't enough cables to office buildings, nor enough underground conduits to install them. Morale was poor in all levels and departments.
The response of the company was to hire and train thousands of new employees and to buy much new equipment for them to work on. Underground construction took years, but emergency installation of Anaconda Carrier pair gain systems normally used in rural areas expanded service while construction was in progress. Telephony, pair gain is a method of transmitting multiple POTS signals over the Twisted pairs traditionally used for a single traditional Subscriber Bell Labs added processing power to their new systems and fixed the software bugs. Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the Research organization A new wire center at 1095 Avenue of Americas relieved four others of part of their load, as well as providing the company with a new headquarters for the next quarter century. The crisis subsided during the 1970s and workers accustomed to heavy overtime had to learn to go home on time and get along on their base pay.
February 27, 1975 brought a fire in the telephone building at 204 Second Avenue, at East 13th Street. The Main Distributing Frame was destroyed, disconnecting tens of thousands of customers, and obsolescent switching equipment was destroyed or damaged by acrid smoke. In Telephony, a Main Distribution Frame ( MDF or Main Frame) is a signal Distribution frame for connecting equipment ( Inside plant) Located at the south end of the East Side trunk cable duct under Second Avenue, this building connects many circuits to Brooklyn which were disrupted. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. A Bell System mobilization dealt with the crisis, including replacing the destroyed MDF. An obsolete and recently retired exchange at the West 18th Street office, not yet melted down for scrap metal, was temporarily resurrected to serve thousands of E13 customers though existing cross-town cables. The damaged 1XB switch was cleaned, and a 1ESS switch that had been destined for the 104 Broad Street exchange was diverted. The Number One Crossbar Switching System or 1XB switch was the primary urban local Telephone exchange design used by the Bell System in the middle 20th The Number One Electronic Switching System, the first large scale Stored Program Control (SPC Telephone exchange or Electronic Switching System in the This was the largest loss of telephone service from fire in US history, until 2001.
Wholly owned Subsidiary
New York Telephone was an AT&T subsidiary until the AT&T breakup effective January 1, 1984. The break up of AT&T was initiated in 1974 by the US Department of Justice antitrust suit against the telephone Monopoly. New Year See also New Year The Ancient Romans began their consular year on January 1st since 153 BC Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) At that time, New York Telephone, along with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, became part of a Regional Bell operating company named NYNEX. New England Telephone was a Bell Operating Company that served most of New England as a part of the original AT&T for seven decades from the creation of NYNEX Corporation (pronounced Nine-x) was a Telephone company which served five New England states ( Maine, Massachusetts, The company was referred to as "New York Telephone, a NYNEX Company" before being called simply "NYNEX" starting on January 1, 1994. On August 15, 1997, NYNEX was acquired by Bell Atlantic, who kept the Bell Atlantic name. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS. On June 30, 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE to form the current Verizon Communications, with the corporate headquarters remaining same 1095 Avenue of the Americas location until 2006 when HQ returned to 140 West Street. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. GTE Corporation (formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation) was the largest of the "independent" US Telephone companies during "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS.
New York Telephone provides local telephone service throughout the state of New York, with the exception of the areas served by the Rochester Telephone Company and other smaller independent local exchange companies. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The company also serves the Greenwich and Byram exchanges in Connecticut. Greenwich is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Byram is a neighborhood or section in the town of Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, separated from Westchester Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. [1] The rest of Connecticut is served by SNET, an AT&T company. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and
One of New York Telephone's most widely-used advertising slogans/jingles was "We're all connected. Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of A jingle is a memorable Slogan, set to an engaging Melody, mainly broadcast on Radio and sometimes on Television commercials. . . New York Telephone. " This slogan was also used by Midwestern RBOC Ameritech. AT&T Teleholdings Inc, formerly Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation) is a U
New York Telephone, then operating under the Bell Atlantic brand, was the first Bell telephone company to win approval to provide long distance service within its operating territory in December 1999, following the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first major overhaul of United States Telecommunications law in nearly 62 years amending the Communications Act of [2]
9/11
The September 11, 2001 attacks destroyed a small telephone exchange inside the World Trade Centre and damaged the company's largest exchange building, the Verizon Building at 140 West Street, across Vesey Street. In the field of Telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls The Verizon Building is a 32-story Art Deco building in New York City, located in Lower Manhattan. The destruction included cables under Vesey Street as well as inside plant damaged when I-beams and steel from the towers ran through the building. In Telecommunication, the term inside plant has the following meanings All the cabling and equipment installed in a Telecommunications facility, Service was disrupted to approximately 300,000 business and consumer voice circuits, 3,600,000 data circuits (including the New York Stock Exchange), and 10 cell towers. The New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE) is a Stock exchange based in New York City. A cell site is a term used primarily in North America for a site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed to create a cell in a Mobile phone network
Police Department headquarters lost telephone service, but the nearby NYTel Pearl Street building had its own small exchange which only lost part of its connections to the rest of the network. Madison Street was closed and cables run out the lower windows of the two buildings and along the pavement to bring immediate service to a few hundred police telephone lines.
Workers from throughout the country, including 3,000 Verizon employees plus non-Verizon employees, helped restore service, allowing the network to carry 230,000,000 calls during the first week following the attacks. During the restoration efforts, trunk cables were run out windows and down the side of the building, flowing through streets closed to traffic, until they found an undamaged manhole for them to enter. A manhole (alternatively utility hole, maintenance hole or access chamber) is the top opening to an underground Utility vault used to house DMS-100 and other exchange equipment was damaged and replaced the following year. The DMS-100 Switch is the biggest seller of a line of Digital Multiplex System (DMS Telephone exchange switches manufactured by Nortel Networks. Also the building was completely renovated restoring it to its former glory as corporate headquarters. In a ceremony on December 8, 2005 Verizon moved its corporate headquarters from 1095 Avenue of the Americas, to 140 West St.
History in logos
New York Telephone, through various mergers and successor companies, has carried various names and used numerous logos. A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign)
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The New York Telephone Company Being a part of AT&T, New York Telephone followed the various corporate looks of AT&T over the years. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and After the 1984 divestiture the Bell logo and name was assigned to the Regional Holding Companies. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) |
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New York Telephone In 1964, AT&T unified its image by simplifying the logo to a Bell within a plain circle, which would not include "The New York Telephone Company" nor "American Telephone and Telegraph". Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. |
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In 1969 AT&T simplified & revamped its corporate identity, which included the modern Bell logo. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The logo is still in use today on Verizon trucks and pay phones. "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS. |
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In 1984, after the AT&T divestiture, New England Telephone and New York Telephone were spun off to the newly created Regional Holding Company, NYNEX Corporation. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) New England Telephone was a Bell Operating Company that served most of New England as a part of the original AT&T for seven decades from the creation of NYNEX Corporation (pronounced Nine-x) was a Telephone company which served five New England states ( Maine, Massachusetts, "A NYNEX Company" was added to the logotype, however it did not appear on telephone bills until January, 1986. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) |
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NYNEX In 1994, the New York Telephone and New England Telephone names ceased to exist, both became branded as simply NYNEX, and the Bell System logo was dropped from the corporate logo; however, it remained on phone booths, and even on the then-new NYNEX signs. |
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Bell Atlantic The Bell Atlantic logo brings to mind its namesake ocean. "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS. The merger also restores the Bell System logo. NYT legally remains "New York Telephone". |
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Verizon New York Telephone, Inc. The current successor company to NYNEX is Verizon Communications. "Verizon" redirects here this article is about the corporation see also Verizon Wireless, Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS. The Bell System logo disappears, again (except on trucks, hard hats and phone booths, and over the main entrances of Verizon-NY Telephone's corporate headquarters at 140 West St. ). "Verizon" is added to the corporate name of New York Telephone. Verizon NY Telephone continues to mark the path of underground cable on streets with "NYT". |
References
- ^ AT&T SNET Fairfield County White Pages, Customer Service Guide page 14, "Local Toll-free Calling Areas", August 2006 edition
- ^ Verizon Seeks to Offer New Jersey Customers Long-Distance Service
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New England Telephone was a Bell Operating Company that served most of New England as a part of the original AT&T for seven decades from the creation of NYNEX Corporation (pronounced Nine-x) was a Telephone company which served five New England states ( Maine, Massachusetts, The Bell System which was named for Alexander Graham Bell, the technologist popularly credited with the invention of the Telephone, was a Trademark and Western Electric Company (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was an American Electrical engineering company the manufacturing arm Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made andDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic