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Alabama Telephone Company; All American Direct; American Cable and Radio Corporation; Ameritech; Andrew Corporation; AT&T Communications (1984–2010) AT&T Corporation; Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company; AT&T Broadband; Automatic Electric
In the following states and regions, the primary local carrier is not an RBOC: Lumen Technologies, in addition to its role as the BOC in the areas of 14 states gained from its acquisition of Qwest, Lumen serves other non-ex-Bell local exchanges in those states, as well as some in Florida and the Las Vegas metropolitan area in Nevada.
Defunct mobile phone companies (1 C, 12 P) S. Svyazinvest (9 P) U. Defunct telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom (1 C, 45 P)
As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]
Back then, No. 5 on the list, the Swift meat company, would have seemed a strong candidate to stay in the 500 for 70 years. It was a colossus, bigger than Shell and Chevron combined.
$70.3 [7] China: 8 SoftBank: $55.2 [8] Japan: 9 ... Note: Numbers of total revenues of most telephone operating companies are sourced from Forbes or MarketScreener ...