Frontier Communications Northwest, Inc. is a former Verizon operating company owned by Frontier Communications. 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 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. Verizon Northwest, along with several other Verizon wireline operating companies, were acquired by Frontier Communications on July 1, 2010. The company's name was changed to Frontier Communications Northwest, Inc. In a way, this reunites former regions in Idaho & Montana with its former operating company.
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