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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.
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.
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 first incarnation of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was a short-lived company set up to develop the then-new telephone.New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation ...
A 5.5% dividend yield and 10% share price returns have helped AT&T investors beat Ma Bell's Dow Jones peers in 2012. Will the victory march continue next year? T data by YCharts. The wireless ...
AT&T Communications was renamed AT&T Communications – East, Inc. and sold long-distance telephone service and operated as a CLEC outside of the borders of the Bell Operating Companies that AT&T owned. It has now been absorbed into AT&T Corp. and all but 4 of the original 22 subsidiaries that formed AT&T Communications continue to exist.
Ill Communication is the fourth studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys, released on May 31, 1994, by Grand Royal and Capitol Records.Co-produced by Beastie Boys and Mario Caldato, Jr., it is among the band's most varied releases, drawing from hip hop, punk rock, jazz, and funk, and continues their trend away from sampling and towards live instruments, which began with their ...
Watson in his later years, holding Bell's original telephone. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, [1] United States, Watson was a bookkeeper and a carpenter before he found a job more to his liking in the Charles Williams machine shop in Boston in 1872. [2] He was then hired by Alexander Graham Bell, who was then a professor at Boston University.