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...

telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services...

Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during...

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...

The Alabama Telephone Company was an American independent telephone company in Northwest Alabama, operating in the mid-20th century and serving Pickens...

traditional solely telephone companies now function as internet service providers (ISPs), and the distinction between a telephone company and ISP has tended...

Automatic Electric Company (A.E. Co.) was an American telephone equipment supplier primarily for independent telephone companies in North America, but...

to The Telephone Company of Prince Edward Island which was founded in 1885. This company was one of several dozen private independent companies operating...

an electrical engineer, founded the company in 1897 in Chicago to produce telephone exchange equipment and telephone apparatus. Along with Western Electric...

either two letters or two numbers, for telephone company buildings. Incumbent independent telephone companies will use two-letter identifiers with X as...