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The Fall of the Bell System A Study in Prices and Politics (1987) Watzinger, Martin, and Monika Schnitzer. "The breakup of the Bell System and its impact on US innovation." (2022). online; White, Lawrence J. "US telephone deregulation: lessons to be learned, mistakes to be avoided." Japan and the World Economy 12.2 (2000): 173-183. online}
Frontier Communications, in addition to its role as the BOC for West Virginia, now serves mainly rural and some suburban and smaller city areas in 27 other states (many formerly part of the GTE ILEC system purchased from Verizon) including parts of Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota ...
Cincinnati Bell was the last RBOC to hold the "Bell" name, but it rebranded as Altafiber in March of 2022. Additionally, Bell Canada, the former Bell Telephone Company of Canada (founded in 1880) and which started separating from the Bell System in 1956, and completely by 1975, continues to use the "Bell" trademarks, which it owns outright in ...
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 and the local operating companies placed under them were: Ameritech. Illinois Bell; Indiana Bell; Michigan Bell; Ohio Bell; Wisconsin Bell
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Southwestern Bell Texas then converted itself into a limited partnership and renamed itself Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P., incorporated in Texas. [6] This company ceased to exist on June 29, 2007, when it was merged into SWBT Inc. , incorporated in Missouri, [ 7 ] which was founded just 8 days prior.
The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in telecommunication services in the United States and Canada. The company was organized in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 9, 1877, by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
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.