RNS No 3444b
BELL ATLANTIC CORP
22nd September 1998

                                                        
                                                  Contact:
                                                  David Frail
                                                  212-395-7726
                                                  david.frail@bellatlantic.com

                   Bell Atlantic Declares Quarterly
                     Dividend of $0.385 Per Share

NEW YORK -- The board of directors of Bell Atlantic Corp. (NYSE:BEL) today
declared a quarterly dividend of $0.385 per outstanding share.  The dividend,
which is unchanged from the previous quarter, will be payable on Nov. 2, 1998
to shareowners of record on Oct. 9, 1998.  The dividend reflects the 2-for-1
stock split of Bell Atlantic common shares that was effective on June 29, 1998.

Frederic V. Salerno, senior executive vice president and chief financial
officer, said, "The board has decided to defer consideration of a dividend
increase at this time after having declared two increases in 1997.  We remain on
target to achieve our double-digit earnings-growth objective for this year, and
we intend to continue to create shareowner value by achieving higher revenue
growth and continuing synergies from the Bell Atlantic-NYNEX merger."

In a separate action, the board authorized management to repurchase shares from
time to time for various purposes, including the satisfaction of employee
compensation plans.  The board action permits the repurchase of up to $1.4
billion of company shares for the two-year period beginning Oct. 1, 1998, and
continues the authority to repurchase up to approximately $200 million remaining
under a previous $1 billion share repurchase authorization that took effect
Jan. 1, 1998.  The amount and timing of share repurchases will depend on market
conditions.

The company said that, as previously announced, the number of shares to be
repurchased will not exceed limits under pooling-of-interests accounting rules.
As a result, the board continued to limit aggregate share repurchases from Aug.
14, 1997, the date of the Bell Atlantic- NYNEX merger, to 66 million shares on a
post-split basis.

Bell Atlantic has approximately 1.1 million registered shareowners and
approximately 1.55 billion shares of common stock outstanding.

Bell Atlantic -- formed through the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX -- is at
the forefront of the new communications and information industry.  With more
than 41 million telephone access lines and more than seven million wireless
customers worldwide, Bell Atlantic companies are premier providers of advanced
wireless voice and data services, market leaders in wireless services and the
world's largest publishers of directory information.  Bell Atlantic companies
are also among the world's largest investors in high-growth global
communications markets, with operations and investments in 23 countries.

INTERNET USERS: Bell Atlantic news releases, executive speeches, news media
contacts mid other useful information are available at Bell Atlantic's News
Center on the World Wide Web (http://www.ba.com).  To receive news  releases by
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Bell Atlantic news releases.

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