EXHIBIT 10h(i)


Termination of Bell Atlantic Senior Management Retirement Income Plan, effective
December 31, 1997, with respect to active participants.

Effective December 31, 1997, the Human Resources Committee ("HRC") of the Board
of Directors of Bell Atlantic terminated benefit accruals for active
participants under the Bell Atlantic Senior Management Retirement Income Plan
("RIP"), and authorized the Executive Vice President -- Human Resources of Bell
Atlantic, as plan administrator, to credit such accrued benefits of active
participants on that date to the respective individual deferred compensation
accounts for those individuals under the newly adopted Bell Atlantic Senior
Management Income Deferral Plan. Thereafter, the RIP will be administered solely
for the benefit of inactive participants who retired or otherwise separated from
service on or before December 31, 1997.