GTE operating companies

The GTE Operating Companies are separate telephone companies within Verizon that provide local telephone service to areas previously served by GTE. The GTE Operating Companies function much like the Bell Operating Companies and were arranged in the GTE corporate structure in the same fashion. The GTE operating companies are known for trading their telephone regions, and many of the GTE operating companies have seen a decrease in the number of states they provide service to since 1990.

The following GTE operating companies are currently in operation by Verizon:

• Contel of the South, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Mid-States
• GTE Southwest, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Southwest
• Verizon California, Inc.
• Verizon Florida, Inc.
• Verizon North, Inc.
• Verizon Northwest, Inc.
• Verizon South, Inc.

The following are defunct GTE operating companies or those whose operations have been sold off:

• GTE Arkansas, Inc., sold to CenturyTel in 2000
• GTE Midwest, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Midwest, Inc., sold to CenturyTel
• GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company, Inc., later Verizon Hawaii, Inc., sold to The Carlyle Group in 2005
• GTE Alaska Inc., sold to Alaska Power and Phone Company in 2000
• Contel of the West, Inc. d/b/a GTE West - discontinued in 1996
• Contel of Minnesota, Inc., sold to Citizens Communications (which later became Frontier Communications)
• GTE of Iowa - Spun off to Iowa Telecom
• Verizon Dominicana (CODETEL), sold to América Móvil
• Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico d/b/a Puerto Rico Telephone, assets sold to América Móvil
• GTE Government Systems to General Dynamics (The Information Systems Division of GTE Government Systems was sold to DynCorp.^[1]
• GTE Wireless (assets in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Ohio, New Mexico, South Carolina and Texas) sold to Alltel.

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