The company is separate from Verizon North, which consists of former GTE-owned assets in rural Pennsylvania.

In 1918, the company embarked on a series of acquisitions enlarging its coverage area from Philadelphia to statewide.

In 1925, Bell of Pennsylvania made a $1.84 million acquisition of telephone exchanges in Wayne, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, and Schuylkill counties from Lehigh Telephone.

In 1944, it acquired Keystone Telephone Company of Philadelphia for $13.4 million.

In 2000, after the Bell Atlantic-GTE merger, the corporation changed its name to Verizon, and so Bell of Pennsylvania once again changed its name, this time to Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc.[citation needed] In 2012, Verizon created a Delaware limited liability company named Verizon Pennsylvania LLC.