Northern New England Spinco

Northern New England Spinco, Inc. was a Verizon Communications subsidiary created in 2007. Its sole purpose of existence is to act as a reverse Morris trust holding company for Verizon's assets owned by Bell Atlantic, GTE, NYNEX, and Verizon located within Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. This company was spun off to Verizon stockholders on March 31, 2008 and was merged into FairPoint Communications the same day.

Northern New England Spinco consisted of the following companies:

Northern New England Telephone Operations, a new local exchange carrier operating former Verizon lines in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
Enhanced Communications of Northern New England, long-distance operations formerly owned by Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, and Verizon

References

First generation

1929	Graybar Electric Company

1956	Northern Electric (via Western Electric)

1975	Bell Canada

1984 Divestiture	Ameritech Bell Atlantic Bell Communications Research BellSouth NYNEX Pacific Telesis Southwestern Bell Corporation US West

1991–1993	Unix System Laboratories

1996	Lucent Technologies NCR

1997	AT&T Submarine Systems sold to Tyco International

2001	AT&T Wireless Services

2003	AT&T Broadband

Second generation spinoffs

Lucent Technologies	Advanced American Telephones (2000) Avaya (2000) QLT Consumer Lease Services (2000) Agere Systems (2002)

MediaOne Group (f/k/a US West)	U S WEST (1998)

NCR	Teradata (2007)

Pacific Telesis	AirTouch (1994)

Qwest	Dex Media (2002)

Regional Bells	Telcordia Technologies (1997)

SBC Communications / AT&T	R.H. Donnelley Publishing and Advertising of Illinois (2004) YP Holdings (2012) Southern New England Telephone (2014)

Verizon Communications	Hawaiian Telcom (2005) Idearc (2006) Northern New England Spinco (2008) New Communications Holdings (2010) Frontier California Frontier Florida Frontier Southwest (2014)

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