Northern New England Telephone Operations LLC is a telephone operating company founded in 2007 to take over the land lines in Maine and New Hampshire formerly operated by Verizon New England, a Bell Operating Company. This company was a part of Northern New England Spinco, a holding company founded in 2007 that was spun off from Verizon and then merged into FairPoint in 2008. The company's operations in Vermont were separated into an operating company named Telephone Operating Company of Vermont which is wholly owned by NNETO.