New Jersey Bell was founded in 1904 as an AT&T company serving southern New Jersey, named Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Company.

New York Telephone served northern New Jersey.

[1] Throughout the 1980s to the first half of the 1990s, New Jersey Bell kept its traditional identity.

In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic - GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so New Jersey Bell once again changed its name, this time to Verizon New Jersey, Inc. Verizon New Jersey's headquarters are in the New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building on 540 Broad Street in Newark.

After Bell Labs moved from New York to New Jersey, they often installed new technological developments there, before deploying farther afield.