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A Bell System logo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1900 [citation needed] AT&T's lines and metallic circuit connections. March 1, 1891. The formation of the Bell Telephone Company superseded an agreement between Alexander Graham Bell and his financiers, principal among them Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Thomas Sanders.
Receiving a U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone on March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, which in 1885 became AT&T. [2] [3] [4] When Bell's original patent expired 15 years later in 1894, the telephone market opened to competition and 6,000 new telephone companies started while the Bell ...
AT&T had been incorporated on April 17, 1880, as American Bell's "long lines" division to handle its long-distance telecommunications. On January 1, 1900, AT&T, a publicly traded corporation, owned the major assets of American Bell and thus became the head of the Bell System. By December 31, 1900, it had 569,901 shares of stock outstanding ...
When the Bell System was broken up in 1984, Western Electric and Bell's other development subsidiaries became AT&T Technologies, which was renamed Lucent Technologies after a 1997 spinoff.
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.
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]
A Bell System logo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1916. Share of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, issued 20. December 1921. AT&T started with Bell Patent Association, a legal entity established in 1874 to protect the patent rights of Alexander Graham Bell after he invented the telephone system.
The ever-changing world of telecommunications claimed another major wireless name in 2007. Cingular Wireless was purchased by AT&T, as part of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth in 2006. The Cingular ...