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2. History of AT&T - Wikipedia

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   History of AT&T. 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 ...

3. AT&T - Wikipedia

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   AT&T. AT&T Inc. (with "AT&T" being an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company) is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. [4] It is the world's fourth-largest telecommunications company by revenue and the largest wireless ...

4. Southwestern Bell - Wikipedia

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   Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. It does business as other d.b.a. names in its operating region, which includes Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and portions of Illinois. The company is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas at One AT&T Plaza .

5. List of United States telephone companies - Wikipedia

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   It also purchased AT&T's landline business in Connecticut in 2013, though these are not considered an RBOC, as the Southern New England Telephone Company, from which they descend, was a franchisee of the Bell System, and not subject to the same regulations after the Bell System breakup.

6. AT&T service restored after nationwide outage. Feds are ... - AOL

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   Around 9 a.m., AT&T had more than 73,000 reported outages, Cricket Wireless had nearly 13,000, Verizon had over 4,000 and T-Mobile had more than 2,000, Down Detector reported. The service ...

7. 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 ...