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Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [3] Altafiber, which serves the greater Cincinnati area, and Hawaii due to its acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom [4] was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the former AT&T held only a minority stake in that company.
Initially, all of these calls had to be completed by the telephone company operator. The first automated toll-free telephone numbers were assigned with area code 800, created as inbound Wide Area Telephone Service (InWATS) in 1966 (U.S. intrastate) and 1967 (interstate). These terminated on special fixed-rate trunks which would accept calls ...
Ace Telephone Association, doing business as Acentek (stylized as AcenTek), is a telephone cooperative based out of Houston, Minnesota.It is a telephone company which also offers local and long distance phone service through VoIP, as well as internet services, e-mail services, and digital TV service; it operates in small towns and rural areas throughout the upper midwestern United States.
Other new services provided under his leadership were GTE Mobilenet cellular telephone operations, Airfone air-to-ground telephone services, and the first voice, video, and data services community in Cerritos, California to test home banking, at-home shopping, home security, and pay-per-view television in 16,000 homes and 2,000 businesses.
Michigan Bell is the subsidiary of AT&T serving the state of Michigan. Following the Bell System divestiture on January 8, 1984, the company became a subsidiary of Ameritech, the Regional Bell operating company that served the midwestern United States. Ameritech was subsequently acquired by SBC Communications, which later changed its name to AT&T.
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 ...
Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York (GTE) Frontier Communications of AuSable Valley (Global Crossing, 2001) Frontier Communications of Seneca-Gorham (Global Crossing, 2001) Frontier Communications of Sylvan Lake (Global Crossing, 2001) Frontier Telephone of Rochester (Global Crossing, 2001) Ogden Telephone (acquired in 1997)
ACN, Inc. is a North American multi-level marketing (MLM) company. [2] It provides telecommunications, energy, merchant services and other services, depending on the country, through a network of independent sellers who also can recruit other sellers.