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Frontier Communications: owns the ex-Bell System ILEC areas in Connecticut and West Virginia. Consolidated Communications operates ex-Bell exchanges in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, which it gained from its acquisition of FairPoint, which had acquired them from Verizon.
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}
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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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 ...
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Western Electric Co., Inc. was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. A subsidiary of the AT&T Corporation for most of its lifespan, Western Electric was the primary manufacturer, supplier, and purchasing agent for all telephone equipment for the Bell System from 1881 until 1984, when the Bell System was dismantled.