Editing Regional Bell Operating Company (section)

== Other related companies ==

=== AltaFiber ===
The former independent [[Bell System]] franchisee [[Cincinnati Bell]], which was not part of the 1984 divestiture because AT&T held only a minority stake in the company, remains independent of the RBOCs. In December 2019, Cincinnati Bell announced that [[Brookfield Infrastructure Partners]] would acquire the company for $2.6 billion.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/23/cincinnati-bell-to-be-acquired-for-2-6.html|title=Cincinnati Bell to be acquired for $2.6B|first=Andy|last=Brownfield|date=December 23, 2019|access-date=January 17, 2020|website=Cincinnati Business Courier|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805142626/https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2019/12/23/cincinnati-bell-to-be-acquired-for-2-6.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On September 7, 2021, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets completed its purchase of Cincinnati Bell, Inc. and later rebranded the company name to AltaFiber.

=== Consolidated Communications ===
[[FairPoint Communications]], an independent provider based in [[North Carolina]], acquired [[Northern New England Telephone Operations]]. NNETO is an operating company split from the original [[Verizon New England|New England Telephone]] to serve access lines in [[Maine]] and [[New Hampshire]]. The sale of these lines by Verizon to FairPoint closed in 2008. [[Telephone Operating Company of Vermont]], a company created following FairPoint's acquisition, was an operating company wholly owned by Northern New England Telephone Operations. In December 2016 FairPoint was purchased by [[Consolidated Communications]], and the combined company operates under the Consolidated Communications name.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.consolidated.com/fairpoint |title=Consolidated Communications & FairPoint |access-date=2019-04-18 |archive-date=2019-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418021402/https://www.consolidated.com/fairpoint |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Frontier Communications ===
In 2010, Frontier Communications acquired [[Frontier West Virginia]], one of the original [[Bell Operating Companies]] formerly known as the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia, in a larger deal including some former [[GTE]] companies with [[Verizon Communications]]. In December 2013, AT&T agreed to sell [[Southern New England Telephone|SNET]] to Frontier, with the sale closing in the second half of 2014.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.courant.com/2013/12/17/att-selling-connecticut-operations-to-frontier/ |title=AT&T Selling Connecticut Operations To Frontier |first=Dan |last=Haar |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |date=December 17, 2013 |access-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-date=August 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813122833/http://articles.courant.com/2013-12-17/business/hc-haar-snet-att-frontier-merger-20131217_1_frontier-communications-connecticut-operations-wireline |url-status=live }}</ref>
On April 1, 2016, Frontier Communications (FTR) completed the data conversions from the Verizon systems for the remaining three largest former GTE properties: California, Florida and Texas.
On May 1, 2020, Frontier Communications (FTR) completed the sale of its Northwest Regional companies of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to Ziply Fiber in an effort to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This move did not solve Frontier Communications financial problems resulting in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing on April 14, 2020. Frontier went public again on May 4, 2021, with FYBR as its trading symbol on NASDAQ, after changing its name to "Frontier Communications Parent".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FYBR/profile/ | title=Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (FYBR) Company Profile & Facts - Yahoo Finance }}</ref>