Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey is reviewing its measures to secure the communication devices used by its armed forces after the deadly blasts in Lebanon, a Turkish defence ministry official said on ...
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.
A telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) is a teleprinter, an electronic device for text communication over a telephone line, that is designed for use by persons with hearing or speech difficulties. Other names for the device include teletypewriter (TTY), textphone (common in Europe), and minicom (United Kingdom).
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.
Lebanon started laying into the ground its core fiber-optic network, starting in Beirut. [90] In 2001, Ericsson laid approximately 2000 km of fiber-optic cables to create a high-speed backbone network. [34] Up to 2010, Lebanon's backbone relied mainly, however, on fixed lines in a traditional "public switched telephone network" .
The militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday that pagers belonging to its members had blown up across Lebanon, killing at least eight and injuring more than 2,700, according to the country’s Health ...
iconectiv was established on October 20, 1983, as Central Services Organization [4] as part of the 1982 Modification of Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. It later received the name Bell Communications Research. Nicknamed Bellcore, it was a consortium established by the Regional Holding Companies upon their separation from AT&T.
Under the Bell System monopoly (post Communications Act of 1934), the Bell System owned the phones and did not allow interconnection, either of separate phones (or other terminal equipment) or of other networks; a popular saying was "Ma Bell has you by the calls". This began to change in the landmark case Hush-A-Phone v.