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Worried the case could heat up the movement for government ownership of the telephone and telegraph, Bell settled the case in 1913. The company made two big concessions. One, it divested itself of ...

the Bell System referred to AT&T and all the Bell Telephone companies that were part of it, but had separate names to provide a regional flavor. The Bell name, of course, came from Alexander ...

As a measure of long-distance telephony's importance, AT&T was organized in 1885 as the parent company of Bell Telephone, rather than the other way around. The search for a solution was already ...