What Is Legacy "T"

What is Legacy "T".

It is the old original AT&T and all the Bell operating companies. It was declared a monopoly in 1982. And broke up into the RBOC s, (Regional Bell Operating Companies). The Ameritech region was the mid-west, (Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana) ,and makes up the CWA District 4. You are probably to young to have been around at this time, but may have heard about it in History, or a Business class. SBC acquired AT&T in 2000, and wanted to use the AT&T name because of the name recognition.

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The genealogy

1984 AT&T divestiture to SWBT, NYNEX, PacTel, Ameritech, US West, Bell South, Bell Atlantic, others

1995 SWBT renames to SBC

1997 SBC acquires Pacific Telesis

1998 SBC acquires SNET

1999 SBC acquires Ameritech

2005 SBC acquires legacy AT&T

2005 SBC renames to AT&T, adopts the DeathStar Logo

2006 AT&T acquires BellSouth

2015 AT&T acquires Direct TV

2017 AT&T acquires Time Warner

There were several sub-regional sell-offs and partnerships in the meantime, Frontier, Dish...

I believe legacy T as it is referred to today is the company left after the divestiture that wasn’t a rboc. Held long distance along with many other things. Ameritech in today’s world I believe is part of legacy S .

I had 3 years in at divestiture.

Word was to try to stay with T and not the RBOCs.

I went with Ameritech.

And made it to retirement.

Correction, SBC bought ATT in 2006, not 2000.

I worked for GTE at the time of divestiture and couldn't help but notice that American Telephone and Telegraph went from being a predictable interface to a total clusterf* of disparate parts.

Then the Okies and the Cowboys bought back the name, but we on the other side always considered Nynex to be the "real" T.

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