[comp.dcom.telecom] Bell Operating Companies

JJC@Vms.Cis.Pittsburgh.EDU (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) (04/08/88)

>From:   Douglas Scott Reuben <DREUBEN%EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU%WESLEYAN.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Subject: SNET not a Bell co????
...

>I'm not sure what Fred is using to distinguish between a Bell Co. and an
>independent. I think the sole difference between SNET and the other Bell
>Co.s is that it was AT&T ("The Bell Company") did not have a controlling
>interest in SNET. (I'm not sure what the other Bell like that was...
>somewhere near PA or sometihng? Anyhone know?) In any event, as I said in

The other one was Cincinatti Bell.  There was also Nevada Bell
Telephone Company that was not owned by AT&T, but by Pacific Bell
(which was owned by AT&T).

	jeff
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