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Telephone Companies History |
1879: First telephone exchange in Ohio. City and Suburban Telegraph Company records 145,392 calls for the year. [Cincinatti Bell History] "The first Bell telephone company started in 1878. This is now known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), which was incorporated in 1885. - History of Wire and Broadcast Communication, FCC (May 1993): 1883: Globe Telephone Co established in NY. Meucci assigns all rights to his teletrofono invention to it. [Catania] 1884: 370 telephone subscribers served by Atlanta Telephone Exchange. [Atlanta]
1899: Brown Telephone Co established [Sprint] See 1942
1913: (1918?) Richland Telephone Co. in Wisconsin is purchased by O'Connell, Odegard, and Pratt. Becomes Associated Telephone Utilities in 1926. [Scripophily] [Funding Uni] 1920: Richland Telephone Co. becomes Commonwealth Telephone Company. [Funding Uni] 1926: Commonweath Telephone Co (WI) purchased Associated Telephone Utilities (CA) and the company takes the name Associated Telephone Utilities. [Scripophily] [LOC Associated Telephone Annual Reports] Associated would acquire 340 telephone companies in the next 5 years. [Funding Uni] 1933: Associated Telephone Utilites goes into receivership and emerges in 1935 reorganized as General Telephone. [Scripophily] [Funding Uni] 1942: Brown Telephone becomes United Utilities. [Sprint] 1955: General Telephone acquires Thomas Gary & Co, 2nd largest independant telephone co. See 1956. [Funding Uni] 1956: General Telephone merges with Sylvania to become GTE. [Scripophily][Funding Uni] 1960: Telephone Communications Company established. [Funding Uni] 1961: Telephone Communications Company acquires Central Western Company and becomes Continental Telephone. [Funding Uni] 1964: GTE acquires Western Utilities Co. 2nd larges Indie Telephone Co. [Funding Uni] See 1983. 1972: United Utilities becomes United Telecom. [Sprint] 1979: GTE Acquires Telenet from BBN. [BBN] See GTE 1983 1983: GTE acquires Southern Pacific Co. / Sprint [Scripophily] becomes third largest telco. [Funding Uni] 1985: Level3 Established under the name of Kiewit Diversified Group. [L3] 1986: Continental Telephone becomes Contel. [Funding Uni] 1988: GTE Sells Sprint to Unitied Utilities. [Scripophily] [Funding Uni] [Sprint] 1990: Contel acquires McCaw Cellular. [Funding Uni] See 1991 1991: GTE and Contel merge to become GTE. [Funding Uni] 1999: Verizon buys GTE; spins off Genuity (BBN Network). [Scripophily] 2003: Level3 Acquires Genuity. [L3] 2005: Sprint and Nextel Merge to form Sprint Nextel. Links
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