On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:47 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > The AT&T name was purchased by Southern Bell Company, which if you do a > little checking you'll find has also purchased pretty much all of the local > operating companies that were spun off by AT&T,
Far from all of the local companies. There is a company out here called Verizon, which grew out of Bell Atlantic, which in turn grew out of Jersey Bell, New York Telephone and other local phone companies in the east. It is now one of the biggest in both mobile and land line telephone service. Verizon also took over most of the huge corporate offices that the old AT&T built in central New Jersey. At that time, the "new AT&T" acquired "Golden Boy," the iconic statue that stood for years outside the AT&T headquarters in NYC, and moved it from Bedminster, New Jersey to Dallas, but that is about the only piece of the old AT&T corporate structure that the new "AT&T" can claim. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
