# Verizon American telecommunications conglomerate formed through the merger of [[wiki/Bell Atlantic|Bell Atlantic]] (itself a merger of two [[wiki/Regional Bell Operating Companies|Baby Bells]]) and [[wiki/GTE|GTE]] in 2000. Verizon represents one of the three major reconsolidation endpoints of the 1984 [[wiki/AT&T|AT&T]] divestiture, alongside AT&T (reconstituted) and [[wiki/Lumen Technologies|Lumen Technologies]]. The reconsolidation path is traced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].