Ma Bell


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Ma Bell

The common nickname for the Bell Telephone Company when it was the monopoly communications provider in the U.S. See Bell System.
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Meanwhile, telecommunications morphed from Ma Bell's landlines to handheld smartphones that are really computers with communication and camera features.
Drive Me to the Moon: Is automotive, not military or space, the impetus behind today's electronics innovation?
Ma Bell had just 8.9 million wholesale subscribers in its U.S.
Antitrust Regulators Are Worried About Wholesale Prices In T-Mobile-Sprint Merger
"Once upon a time, Ma Bell ran the phone system with ruthless, utterly monopolistic efficiency.
Freezer reveals a hidden gem: A peach pie
The old Ma Bell has employed a different, more cynical strategy, by forcing U-verse customers into programming "blackouts" of their favorite local TV stations and then directing irate customers to switch to AT&T's own DirecTV.
Did AT&T Force Consumers From U-Verse To DirecTV?
In describing how Toronto telephone operators trounced Ma Bell in the 1970s and 1980s, Joan M.
Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest corporation ... and Won!
The average consumer pays $231 per year in set-top box rental fees; Wheeler has likened this stranglehold to the way consumers once had to rent phones from Ma Bell. But the MVPDs are not going to let that $20 billion in annual revenue evaporate without a fight.
Getting cable out of the box
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It is suing AT&T, alleging that Ma Bell infringed on three patents held by Cox.
AT&T, Cox embroiled in patent dispute
On the next day, PCCA Past President Steve Spears addressed the LDP group, recounting his fascinating journey from working his way through college for Indiana Ma Bell to owning Bonneville Contracting & Technology Group Inc., in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
PCCA celebrates 70th anniversary in Sunny Aruba
The carrier said it supports smart regulation." What doesn't make sense and has never made sense is to take a regulatory framework developed for Ma Bell in the 1930s and make her great grandchildren with technologies and options undreamed of 80 years ago live under it" Jim Cicconi ATandT's SVP of external and legislative affairs wrote in a blog post.
Verizon gets snarky in response to FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling
Even as FairPoint Communications settled a long strike involving many of its line workers, the company made another move that says at least as much about the state of the telephone industry, preparing to turn part of their Manchester facility into a data center and push into a competitive business that has nothing to do with Ma Bell.
Data points: as landline phones fade, FairPoint looks to a new business
Gordon Crovitz denounced FCC Chairman Wheeler's decision to apply outdated regulations designed to manage the erstwhile Ma Bell telephone monopoly to today's rapidly evolving Internet.
FCC makes grab for Internet
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