said by Jim Gurd 
:said by nixen :Given how much of a cluster-fuck Bell Atlantic was prior to buying out NYNEX and then merging with Genuity to form Verizon
I think you mean GTE, not Genuity. GTE is the old General Telephone and Electronics. They were the largest non-RBOC in the country.
When NYNEX merged with GTE they chose Verizon as the new corporate name.
NYNEX was a non-entity unable to "chose Verizon". NYNEX had been purchased by Bell Atlantic a year or so prior to Verizon coming into existence. I was still working for Bell Atlantic's "Internet Solutions" division when Bell Atlantic completed the NYNEX acquisition.
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