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The new AT&T Inc. lacks the vertical integration that characterized the historic AT&T Corporation and led to the Department of Justice antitrust suit. [23] AT&T Inc. announced it would not switch back to the Bell logo, [24] thus ending corporate use of the Bell logo by the Baby Bells, with the lone exception of Verizon.
Under the settlement, AT&T ("Ma Bell") agreed to divest its local exchange service operating companies, in return for a chance to go into the computer business (see AT&T Computer Systems). AT&T's local operations were split into seven independent Regional Bell operating companies, commonly known as "Baby Bells".
United States v. AT&T, 552 F.Supp. 131 (1982), was a ruling of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, [1] that led to the 1984 Bell System divestiture, and the breakup of the old AT&T natural monopoly into seven regional Bell operating companies and a much smaller new version of AT&T.
AT&T) and settled in the Modification of Final Judgment on January 8, 1982. AT&T agreed to divest its local exchange service operating companies, effective January 1, 1984. The group of local operating companies were split into seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies, which became known as the Baby Bells. [1]
AT&T was founded as Bell Telephone Company by Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson and Gardiner Greene Hubbard after Bell's patenting of the telephone in 1875. [22] By 1881, Bell Telephone Company had become the American Bell Telephone Company. [23]
In 1998, I bought a digital cell phone from AT&T that only had 90 minutes of talk time per month. The rep at the store told me that to save on my minutes I could forward my number to my home phone ...
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
Aaron Phypers is being sued for alleged fraud and breach of oral contract.. A lawsuit against Phypers, who is married to actress Denise Richards, was filed on Nov. 13, 2024, accusing him of ...