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within and outside
California were transferred to other SBC subsidiaries, like "Pacific Telesis Shared Services" and "SBC Operations, Inc." However, for legal and regulatory purposes, employees supporting local regulated services were still employed by "Pacific Bell Telephone Company
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SBC California ("SBC California")", and "Nevada Bell dba SBC Nevada", which were the SBC subsidiaries that provided regulated local telephone services within the franchise territory in
California and Nevada.
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AT&T California and Nevada Bell
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Pacific Telesis later licensed the Pacific Bell name to
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1997:Undersea telegraph line
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1509:AT&T Midtown Center
1301:AT&T Small Business
1281:BellSouth Long Distance
1074:Gardiner Greene Hubbard
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2033:Edwin Howard Armstrong
1841:Information revolution
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1539:AT&T at the Movies
1306:AT&T Cybersecurity
1129:Michael B. McCallister
938:Verizon Communications
888:Telcordia Technologies
552:(via Western Electric)
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2193:Narinder Singh Kapany
2158:Erna Schneider Hoover
2078:Jagadish Chandra Bose
2058:Alexander Graham Bell
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2233:Charles Grafton Page
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1816:Electrical telegraph
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1463:Asia-America Gateway
1428:AT&T City Center
1189:Laura D'Andrea Tyson
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180:AT&T Corporation
2253:Johann Philipp Reis
2012:Wireless revolution
1974:The Telephone Cases
1831:Hydraulic telegraph
978:Frontier California
747:Lucent Technologies
653:Lucent Technologies
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2298:Charles Wheatstone
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1873:Optical telegraphy
1706:Telecommunications
1561:550 Madison Avenue
1271:AT&T Southwest
1266:AT&T Southeast
1103:William E. Kennard
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680:Tyco International
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2038:Mohamed M. Atalla
2007:Whistled language
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1980:Television
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