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  2. BellSouth - Wikipedia

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    BellSouth, LLC (stylized as BELLSOUTH and formerly known as BellSouth Corporation) was an American telecommunications holding company based in Atlanta, Georgia.BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.

  3. BellSouth Telecommunications - Wikipedia

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    BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC. BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC was an operating company of AT&T that served the southeastern United States. It consisted of the operations of Southern Bell and South Central Bell . BellSouth Telecommunications was a subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation which was acquired by AT&T Inc. on December 29, 2006.

  4. Breakup of the Bell System - Wikipedia

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    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 were NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell Corporation, BellSouth, and US West. NYNEX, merged with Bell ...

  5. Ameritech - Wikipedia

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    Ameritech. AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation ), is an American telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture. Ameritech was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies created following the breakup of the Bell System.

  6. History of AT&T - Wikipedia

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    The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, who obtained the first US patent for the telephone, and his father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Bell and Hubbard also established American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885, which acquired the ...

  7. Pacific Bell - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Bell Telephone Company. The Pacific Bell Telephone Company ( Pac Bell) is a telephone company that provides telephone service in California. The company is owned by AT&T through AT&T Teleholdings, and, though separate, is now marketed as “AT&T”. The company has been known by a number of names during which its service area has changed.

  8. Anderson, South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. [6] The population was 28,106 at the 2020 census, making it the 16th-most populous city in South Carolina. [7] It is one of the principal cities in the Greenville -Anderson- Greer, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of ...

  9. SBC Telecom - Wikipedia

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    SBC Telecom, Inc. SBC Telecom, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Small Business is a CLEC owned by AT&T that offers local telephone service outside the AT&T Bell Operating Company regions. [1] It was formed in 1999 following provisions that required SBC Communications to offer telephone service outside its boundaries in order to get approval to merge with Ameritech.