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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Basic timeline of AT&T

This post is a basic timeline of AT&T. There are 24 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone (1877)
• Alexander Graham Bell founds Bell Telephone Company (1877)
• Renamed to American Bell Company (1880)
• American Telephone and Telegraph Company acquires American Bell (1889)
• AT&T begins acquiring competitors (1907)
• Kingsbury Commitment to limit AT&T acquisitions (1913)
• AT&T acquires triode vacuum tube from Lee de Forest (1913)
• First transcontinental telephone call (1915)
• U.S. government nationalizes the telecommunications industry (1918)
• Bell Labs is established (1925)
• Transatlantic radio service (1927)
• Transatlantic telephone cable (1956)
• Telstar 1 communications satellite (1962)
• FCC allows devices to connect to AT&T's network (1968)
• United States v. AT&T antitrust suit (1974)
• United States v. AT&T is settled and AT&T is split into 7 companies (1982)
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (SBC) is established (1984)
• AT&T acquires NCR Corporation (1991)
• AT&T acquires McCaw Cellular (1994)
• AT&T becomes publicly traded (2001)
• AT&T merges with Cingular Wireless (2004)
• SBC acquires AT&T Corporation (2005)
• AT&T acquires BellSouth (2006)
• AT&T merger with T-Mobile is rejected (2011)