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Riordan, Michael. "The end of AT&T: Ma Bell may be gone, but its innovations are everywhere." IEEE Spectrum 42.7 (2005): 46-51. Riordan, Michael. "Universal residential telephone service." Handbook of telecommunications economics 1 (2002): 423-473. online; Temin, Peter, and Louis Galambos. The Fall of the Bell System A Study in Prices and ...
Hand telephone sets consist of three principal parts: the handset, a handset mounting, and an apparatus box, called variously desk set box, bell box, subscriber set, or just subset. This box is typically mounted on a wall or desk-side, and contains an electromagnetic bell ringer and a speech transformer , called induction coil , to connect the ...
Western Electric Co., Inc. was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the Bell System was dismantled.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president and a trustee of the Bell Telephone Company, and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell. At the time of the organization of the Bell Telephone Company as an association (also known as the Bell Company), on July 9, 1877, as a joint stock company in 1877 by Hubbard, [8] [13] who soon became its trustee and de facto president, 5,000 shares in total were ...
The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard domestic desk telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from 1950 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. The successor to the model 302 telephone , the model 500's modular construction compared to previous types simplified manufacture and repair and facilitated a ...
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In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired non-Bell company GTE and subsequently rebranded as Verizon Communications; Also in 2000, US West was acquired by non-Bell company Qwest; 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.
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