Verizon Maryland LLC is a

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owned by

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serving the state of

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. Its headquarters are in

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. The company was founded in 1884 as The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City. It changed its name to The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland on January 3, 1956. After AT&T's 1969

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overhaul, which included the famous

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Bell logo, the name was shortened to C&P Telephone on marketing materials, bills, vehicles, etc. In 1984, when the Bell System was divided into the

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, or "Baby Bells", the C&P Telephone companies became part of

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. In 1994, Bell Atlantic renamed all of its operating companies. C&P Telephone of Maryland was renamed Bell Atlantic – Maryland, Inc. After Bell Atlantic's merger with GTE in 2000, the system was renamed

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, and so were its

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. Bell Atlantic was renamed Verizon Maryland, Inc. In December 2012, Verizon Maryland, Inc., incorporated in

, was merged into Verizon Maryland Merge Co., a Delaware corporation; the name of the Delaware-based company was then changed to Verizon Maryland LLC.

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