Parentheses in domain mean exclude, square brackets mean including If you have infinity or negative infinity, the corresponding sign needs to be parentheses. A number from 1 to infinity not including 1 would be written as (1, *insert infinity*) Including 1 [1, *insert infinity*)
Intro - History & Timeline. Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., in one of the largest mergers in U.S. business history. GTE and Bell Atlantic evolved and grew through decades of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
What eventually became Verizon was founded as Bell Atlantic, which was one of the seven Baby Bells that were formed after AT&T Corporation was forced to relinquish its control of the Bell System by order of the Justice Department of the United States.