The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million. The building played an ...

With the help of his father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell organized the first telephone company, The Bell Telephone Company. The company started out as a joint-stock company and was founded in Boston, ...

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Since its founding by Alexander Graham Bell, AT&T; Corp. has been synonymous with the telephone. But the venerable corporate giant once known as “Ma Bell” may soon be eaten by one of its young. SBC ...

The acquisition of BellSouth Corp. by AT&T Inc. would bring more than half of the traditional telephone business back under one roof and into the company once known as “Ma Bell,” whose history dates ...

Although Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the official patent for the telephone in 1876, research conveys that there were countless others who attempted to file a caveat for their own version of the ...

The Northwestern Bell Telephone Company will add 75 new employees to its present service in South Hibbing. The crew will be employed to install new lines to care for increased subscribers. The work ...

CHICAGO - Illinois Bell Telephone Co. stiffed them for overtime, 44 workers say in a federal class action. Sign up for the Top 8, a roundup of the day's top stories ...

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The smartphone has mostly replaced an apparatus once known as the “horn,” “squawk box,” “blower” or “heater,” and at times the vintage device “rang off the hook.” The first words were transmitted via ...