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Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems Inc company history timeline

1984

On January 2, 1984, Federal Justice Harold Greene ordered Bell Atlantic to transfer a $30 million contract with the federal government to AT&T, ruling that AT&T was granted the contract pre-divestiture.

Nevertheless, Bell Atlantic bounced back from its court loss, acquiring a 40 percent interest in A Beeper Company Associates in January 1984.

Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems took off early from the starting gate: in March 1984 the company introduced Alex, a cellular telephone service to commence a month later in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, markets.

Justice Greene set a March 23, 1984 deadline for all RHCs to submit specific requests for waivers or further explanation of the original consent decree.

In December 1984 Bell Atlantic bought New Jersey's Tri-Continental Leasing Corporation (Tri-Con), a computer and telecommunications equipment provider.

1985

By the end of 1985 Bell Atlantic earnings were $1.1 billion on revenues of $9.1 billion.

1986

Continuing to expand its unregulated businesses in spite of, or perhaps because of, line-of-business restrictions as outlined in the consent decree, in September 1986 Bell Atlantic acquired the real estate assets of Pitcairn Properties, Inc.

1989

Bolger announced his retirement as CEO, effective in January 1989, and COO Smith became the new chief executive officer.

1990

With the January 1990 purchase of Control Data Corporation's third-party maintenance business, Bell Atlantic sealed its position as the leader in maintenance of both IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation systems.

Undaunted by its squabbles with the government, Bell Atlantic had created the world's largest independent computer maintenance organization by 1990, able to service some 500 brands of computers.

Other Bell Atlantic acquisitions of 1990 included Northern Telecom's regional PBX operations and Simborg Systems Corporation.

1992

Metro Mobile, the second largest independent cellular radio telecommunications provider in the United States, was acquired in 1992.

1996

Bell Atlantic wasted little time, becoming the first Baby Bell to jump into the long distance market by recruiting customers in Florida, Illinois, North and South Carolina, and Texas in early 1996.

1997

Bell Atlantic's merger with NYNEX was completed in early 1997.

1998

Telecom Italia SpA, the state-owned company, was due for regulation in 1998, and Bell Atlantic, as well as several other joint ventures, including one from France Telecom, Duetsche Telekom AG, and Sprint Corp., were ready to offer Italians a myriad of choices.

2000

On April 4th of 2000 the merger was complete and the company would now be known as Verizon Wireless.

2004

in 2004, AT&T and Verizon announced plans to roll out cable/broadband services.

2005

Meanwhile, by 2005, the Bell companies have been able to garner over 60% of the long distance market because they could upsell local and long distance as a package.

2006

In 2006 Verizon sold their Verizon Dominicana stakes in Puerto Rico to America Movil and Telmax for almost $4 million.

2010

Another important acquisition which occurred in 2010 was that of Alltel which made Verizon the largest wireless provider within the United States.

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