the suit, AT&T proposed an alternative: its breakup. It proposed that it retain control of Western Electric, Yellow Pages, the Bell trademark, Bell Labs...

of the United States and Canada. At the time of the breakup of the Bell System in the early 1980s, it had assets of $150 billion (equivalent to $440 billion...

of the companies. A "Baby Bell" is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT&T into the resulting...

million subscribers as of March 31, 2024. The company was formed in 1984 as Bell Atlantic as a result of the breakup of the Bell System into seven companies...

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. Ameritech...

in preparation for the breakup of the Bell System, which became effective as of January 1, 1984. It assumed the corporate charter of Western Electric Co...

until 1983, when the breakup of the Bell System placed various parts of the companies in the system into independent corporate entities. The journal was devoted...

the breakup of the Bell System. He also designed Continental Airlines' 1968 jet stream logo, United Airlines' 1974 tulip logo (which became some of the...

the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation, now part of Verizon. The...

The suit, coupled with the Department of Justice antitrust suit also brought against AT&T, eventually led to the voluntary breakup of the Bell System...

in the 1960s and 1970s, transparent-shelled devices fell out of fashion until the clear craze in the late 1980s. Following the breakup of the Bell System...

was one of the three core units of AT&T formed after the breakup of the Bell System. As a twenty-five percent owner, AT&T Information Systems utilized...

process of selling an asset. The largest corporate divestiture in history was the 1984 U.S. Department of Justice-mandated breakup of the Bell System into...

was the 5E–XC.[citation needed] The 5ESS technology was transferred to the AT&T Network Systems division upon the 1984 breakup of the Bell System. The division...

such as the Baby Bells) and out-of-region calls (handled by interexchange carriers such as AT&T, MCI and Sprint). The breakup of the Bell system in 1984...

by the breakup of the Bell System, with cellular assets transferred to the Regional Bell Operating Companies. The wireless revolution began in the early...

in the United States List of telecommunications companies List of Internet exchange points List of public utilities Bell System Breakup of the Bell System...

against the phone company, the final legal proceedings involving the Hush-A-Phone turned out to be relevant to the eventual breakup of the Bell system. Advertisements...

was introduced into the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in 1983, after the breakup of the Bell System monopoly, as a method of telephone number assignment...

deregulation and the Breakup of the Bell System in the early 1980s. While Speed dial technology had been invented nearly a decade earlier by Bell Labs, it did...

the General Personnel Manager of Southern Bell in Georgia. Nicholas oversaw the last years of Southern Bell operations in Georgia before the Breakup of...

the highest-volume AT&T Unix license. Bell Labs, the developer of Unix, was part of the regulated Bell System and could not sell Unix directly to most...

of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, sometimes also referred to as "RBOCs" or "Baby Bells", created in 1983 in preparation of the breakup of...

choice. In 1982, the breakup of the Bell System occurred. AT&T was broken up into one long-distance company and seven regional "Baby Bells", arguing that...

maintained in front of the Beggs Telephone Company office. After the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, it was not long before independent stores selling telephones...

Department of Justice settled its second antitrust case against AT&T, causing the breakup of the Bell System. This relieved AT&T of the 1956 consent...

the end terminal, such as a teletypewriter, and back, rather than through direct electrical connection. Prior to its breakup in 1984, Bell System's legal...

the breakup of the Bell System in 1982, near the building's completion, AT&T spun off its subsidiary companies. As a result, AT&T never occupied the entire...

originally maintained by telephone companies, the breakup of the Bell System in the 1980s and the introduction of toll-free number portability in 1993 required...

to the public. A lawsuit in 1982 led by the Justice Department after AT&T underpriced other companies, resulted in the breakup of the Bell System from...