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AT&T Midtown Center, BellSouth Telecommunications (d/b/a AT&T Southeast) headquarters, Atlanta. BellSouth Telecommunications was incorporated in 1983 as SBT&T Co. in Georgia in 1983, [1] as part of the breakup of the Bell System to absorb the original Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company that was incorporated in New York in 1879 ...
In 2005, SBC acquired former parent AT&T Corporation and took the AT&T name, becoming AT&T Inc. In 2006, BellSouth was acquired by AT&T Inc. In 2008, Verizon sold its operations in northern New England to FairPoint Communications; In 2011, Qwest was acquired by CenturyLink, which subsequently changed its name to Lumen Technologies in 2020.
One of the new companies formed by the breakup of AT&T was Southwestern Bell Corporation. This company grew continuously over the years until it acquired AT&T in 2005. After this acquisition, SBC took on AT&T's name and branding, and this is the company known as AT&T today.
BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
In February 2005, SBC announced its plans to acquire former parent company AT&T Corp. for over $16 billion. SBC took on the AT&T name upon merger closure on November 18, 2005. SBC began trading as AT&T Inc. on December 1, 2005, but began re-branding as early as November 21 of the same year. In 2006 AT&T Inc. purchased BellSouth. [3]
It was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the original AT&T held only a minority stake in that company. Verizon, in addition to its role as a RBOC in its areas retained in the East, serves former GTE areas in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Verizon formerly served ex-GTE areas in parts of California, Florida and Texas before ...
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 (1899-1983) Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a Bell Operating Company serving the Southeastern United States of Georgia , Florida , North Carolina , and South Carolina . It also previously covered the states of Alabama , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , and Tennessee until 1968 when those were split off to form South ...