An independent telephone company was a telephone company providing local service in the United States or Canada that was not part of the Bell System organized...
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Bell System (redirect from Bell Telephone)
telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services...
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GTE (redirect from General Telephone and Electronics)
Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during...
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Operating Company (RBOC) was a corporate entity created as result of the antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice against the American Telephone and...
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The Alabama Telephone Company was an American independent telephone company in Northwest Alabama, operating in the mid-20th century and serving Pickens...
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traditional solely telephone companies now function as internet service providers (ISPs), and the distinction between a telephone company and ISP has tended...
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Automatic Electric (redirect from Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company)
Automatic Electric Company (A.E. Co.) was an American telephone equipment supplier primarily for independent telephone companies in North America, but...
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to The Telephone Company of Prince Edward Island which was founded in 1885. This company was one of several dozen private independent companies operating...
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an electrical engineer, founded the company in 1897 in Chicago to produce telephone exchange equipment and telephone apparatus. Along with Western Electric...
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either two letters or two numbers, for telephone company buildings. Incumbent independent telephone companies will use two-letter identifiers with X as...
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