The government forced AT&T to break up into eight different companies in 1984. Today, almost all of them are once again part of AT&T. Here's how it happened.

But the Bell System breakup was not an unmixed blessing. It was more disruptive and costly than most people remember – and in the end it didn’t really accomplish its stated economic goal of ...

Find out why the breakup of AT&T into a number of spinoffs called the Baby Bells was one of the most ... under the Sherman Antitrust Act in the 1970s, which led to the breakup of the Bell System.

Ten years after the breakup of the nation’s telephone monopoly, Ruth Taylor still mourns the demise of Ma Bell. “AT&T; was the only thing that worked perfectly and the government broke it up ...

ROBERT ALLEN: Gone is the old Bell System franchise. And with it, gone the old organization structure, designed as it was to conform to regulatory jurisdictions and to serve fairly predictable ...

Glenn E. Watts, 82, the president of the Communications Workers of America who led the union through the breakup of the AT&T; Bell telephone monopoly, died Friday in Washington, D.C., of ...

Reprint: R0606G Before the breakup of the Bell System, U.S. telephone companies were permitted by law to ask for security deposits from a small percentage of subscribers. The companies used ...

Bell Telephone was founded in 1877, one year after Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone. Five years later, the Bell company took control of Western Electric, an electrical equip… ...

In the years immediately after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984, a question arose: What was the purpose of this company—and what was ...

In Monday's column, we discussed how the breakup in Ma Bell unleashed an era of competition and innovation in the telecom business. We also noted how the breakup made life a lot more complicated ...