# GTE General Telephone & Electronics — a major American telephone company (not a Baby Bell) that merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to form [[wiki/Verizon|Verizon]]. GTE's merger with a Bell System descendant represents one of the reconsolidation events in the post-divestiture telecommunications landscape. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].