Included in income from operations of Verizon Information Services Canada before income taxes in the preceding table are operating revenues of Verizon Information Services Canada prior to its sale in the fourth quarter of 2004 of $280 million, $284 million and $248 million for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2003 and 2002, respectively.

Iusacell
Discontinued operations also include the results of operations of Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V. (Iusacell) prior to the sale of Iusacell in July 2003. In connection with the decision to sell our interest in Iusacell and a comparison of expected sale proceeds, less cost to sell, to the net book value of our investment in Iusacell (including the foreign currency translation balance), we recorded a pretax loss of $957 million ($931 million after-tax) in the second quarter of 2003. This loss included $317 million of goodwill.

Summarized results of operations for Iusacell, which was part of our International segment, follows:

Included in income (loss) from operations of Iusacell before income taxes in the preceding table are operating revenues of $181 million and $540 million for the years ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, respectively.

Sales of Businesses, Net
Wireline Property Sales
During 2002, we completed the sales of all 675,000 of our switched access lines in Alabama and Missouri to CenturyTel Inc. and 600,000 of our switched access lines in Kentucky to ALLTEL Corporation for $4,059 million in cash proceeds ($191 million of which was received in 2001). We recorded a pretax gain of $2,527 million ($1,550 million after-tax). The operating revenues and operating expenses of the access lines sold were $623 million and $241 million, respectively, in 2002.

Other Transactions
In 2003, we recorded a net pretax gain of $141 million ($88 million after-tax) primarily related to the sale of our European directory publication operations in Austria, the Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

During 2002, we recorded a net pretax gain of $220 million ($116 million after-tax), primarily resulting from a pretax gain on the sale of TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. of $466 million ($275 million after-tax), partially offset by an impairment charge in connection with our exit from the video business and other charges of $246 million ($159 million after-tax).