-=PCTechTalk=- History lesson on the Bell telephone companies was Re: desperately needed -

Hi,
SBC and BellSouth are separate companies.  The letters  in SBC once stood for 
Southwestern Bell Corp, a company that was formed when the old ATT was split 
into several smaller companies providing local phone service in various 
geographic regions.  The same for Bell South.  Southwestern Bell bought some of 
the other companies, such as Ameritech, which mainly was in the Midwest.  Since 
the geographic area was then no longer in the Southwest the company changed 
it's name to SBC.  In the East Nynex (New York and New England) and Bell 
Atlantic (Mid Atlantic states) merged, keeping the Bell Atlantic name.  Bell 
Atlantic then later merged with GTE (which was not a part of the old ATT) and 
formed Verizon.  In the west that was not part of Southwestern Bell there was 
Western Bell.  It merged with Qwest (which was not part of the old ATT) and 
kept the Qwest name.  There have been some other mergers and acquisitions of 
other companies here and there I have not listed.  Just a little his
 tory of
 the Bell System that used to be ATT which at one time provided local and long 
distance phone service for many places in the US.
Dave
 
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From: "Hank" <hank@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: desperately needed - 
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:28:07 -0500

Cris Sbc is bellsouth, They just don't want to be called BullShitSouth.
Yours Hank
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