Central Telephone Company of Virginia is a telephone company owned by CenturyLink that provides a local telephone service within the commonwealth of Virginia...
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West Virginia, and Virginia. Today, three of the companies are owned by Verizon Communications: The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (DC), The...
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Centel (redirect from Central Telephone and Electric Company)
Technologies) in 2009. Central Telephone, Central Telephone Company of Virginia, and Central Telephone Company of Texas are still active CenturyLink subsidiaries...
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(North Carolina) Central Telephone Company (Nevada, North Carolina) Central Telephone Company of Virginia, Inc. Central Telephone Company of Texas Embarq...
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Central Telephone Company is a telephone operating company owned by Lumen Technologies that provides local telephone service in Florida, Nevada, and North...
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1937, the Lee Telephone Company acquired all the private lines. In 1974, the Central Telephone Company of Virginia bought out the Lee Company. Years later...
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Bell System (redirect from Bell Telephone)
was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that...
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Frontier West Virginia, Inc. is one of the original Bell Operating Companies and provides local telephone service in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The Chesapeake...
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Armstrong Telephone Company is a telecommunications provider, and part of the Armstrong Group of Companies. The company primarily operates as a local...
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Telephone call recording laws are legislation enacted in many jurisdictions, such as countries, states, provinces, that regulate the practice of telephone...
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timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. 1667:...
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Qwest Corporation (redirect from Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company)
Inc. from 1991 to 2000. It was also named Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company–later Mountain Bell from 1911 to 1991. In the early 2010s the...
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area codes in 1947 when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) designed the first comprehensive telephone numbering plan for the North American...
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Southern Bell (category American companies established in 1879)
Charleston and other parts of West Virginia, from 1883 until 1917, when the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia took over operations there...
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Area codes 202 and 771 (redirect from Telephone numbers in the District of Columbia)
codes 202 and 771 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Washington, D.C. Area code 202 was one of the original North American...
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North American Numbering Plan (redirect from Telephone numbers in North America)
the 1940s by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) for the Bell System and the independent telephone companies in North America in Operator...
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Verizon New York (redirect from New York Telephone Company)
York Telephone Company (NYTel), was organized in 1896, taking over the New York City operations of the American Bell Telephone Company. The Telephone Company...
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century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until...
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In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American...
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Original North American area codes (redirect from List of original area codes)
codes were established by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1947, after the demonstration of regional Operator Toll Dialing during...
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Alltel (redirect from Mid-Penn Telephone Company)
begins in 1983 when Allied Telephone and Mid-Continent Telephone merged. Mid-Continent Telephone was originally a theatre company and started in 1931 by Eddie...
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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...
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Western Electric (redirect from Western Electric Company Inc.)
over telephone service in the United States for much of the 20th century, Western Electric's equipment was widespread across the country. The company was...
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numerous companies. Notable people included in this were Antonio Meucci, Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. The concept of the telephone dates...
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Verizon Pennsylvania (redirect from Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania)
Bell of Pennsylvania, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1879 as Bell Telephone Company of Philadelphia...
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telephone and telegraph companies and with registering corporations in Virginia. The SCC began operations on March 2, 1903. Since then, the Virginia General...
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more central office prefixes for new telephone numbers. Area code 301 was one of the original North American area codes when the American Telephone and...
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AT&T (redirect from American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 1920, which was then a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The latter was a successor of the original...
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DEX One (redirect from R. H. Donnelley Publishing & Advertising of Illinois)
son of RR Donnelley founder Richard R. Donnelley. R.H. Donnelley primarily contracted with The Chicago Telephone Company to publish telephone directories...
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Verizon Virginia (formerly The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia). Frontier Communications purchased Verizon West Virginia from Verizon...
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