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  2. History of AT&T - Wikipedia

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    History of AT&T. The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained the first US patent for the telephone, and his father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Bell and Hubbard also established American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885 ...

  3. AT&T Wireless Services - Wikipedia

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    AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corporation, was a wireless telephone carrier founded in 1987 in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol "AWE", as a separate entity from its former parent. On October 26, 2004, AT&T Wireless was acquired by ...

  4. Inflation accounting - Wikipedia

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    Historical cost basis in financial statements [ edit ] Fair value accounting (also called replacement cost accounting or current cost accounting) was widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but historical cost accounting became more widespread after values overstated during the 1920s were reversed during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

  5. AT&T Corporation - Wikipedia

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    AT&T Communications. AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

  6. AT&T Communications (1984–2010) - Wikipedia

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    Parent. AT&T Corporation (1984–2005) AT&T Inc. (2005–2010) Website. www.att.com. AT&T Communications, Inc. was a division of the AT&T Corporation that, through 23 subsidiaries, provided interexchange carrier and long-distance telephone services.

  7. Cost basis - Wikipedia

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    e. Basis (or cost basis), as used in United States tax law, is the original cost of property, adjusted for factors such as depreciation. When a property is sold, the taxpayer pays/ (saves) taxes on a capital gain / (loss) that equals the amount realized on the sale minus the sold property's basis. Cost basis is needed because tax is due based ...

  8. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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    The WATS (Wide Area Telephone Service) line is the heart of all SNCC security and communications. For a flat monthly rate, an unlimited number of calls can be dialed directly to any place in the country — or the state — depending on what line one uses. The Jackson office has a state-wide line, the Atlanta office has the national WATS line.

  9. Breakup of the Bell System - Wikipedia

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    The breakup of the Bell System resulted in the creation of seven independent companies that were formed from the original twenty-two AT&T-controlled members of the System. [5] On January 1, 1984, these companies were NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell Corporation, BellSouth, and US West. NYNEX, merged with Bell ...