Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: BOCs and Regionals Message-ID: Date: 23 Aug 89 01:36:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Dept. Lines: 52 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 321, message 1 of 8 >> What's wrong with this picture? >> Iowa is served by SouthWestern Bell. I grew up there; my uncle >> worked for SW Bell. I'm quite sure this hasn't changed in the past >> 10 yrs. :-) > > Well, sorry to say this, but I was just in Spirit Lake Iowa yesterday, and > called back to work on a pay phone that wanted 35 cents and also had a VERY > large logo marked "US West Telecommunications" on it. Doubtless, my memory is at least as faulty as anyone else's, but my recollection has Minnesota, Iowa, North & South Dakota all being served by NorthWestern Bell, which upon divestiture became a subsidiary of US West. While we're at it, maybe we should settle all of these questions in one swell foop. Here's my attempt: NYNEX New England Telephone (Maine, NH, VT, Mass, RI) New York Telephone Bell Atlantic New Jersey Bell Bell of Pennsylvania Chesapeake & Patomic (Maryland, DC, VA?) Bell South Southern Bell (NC, SC, GA, FL) South Central Bell (KE, TN, Mississippi, AL) Ameritech Ohio Bell Indiana Bell Illinois Bell Michigan Bell Wisconsin Bell Southwestern Bell Southwestern Bell (LA, Arkansas, TX, OK, KA) US West Northwestern Bell (Minnesota, ND, SD, Iowa, Missouri?, Nebraska?) Mountain Bell (Montana, ID?, WY, CO, UT, Arizona, NM, Nevada) Pacific Northwest Bell (WA, OR, Alaska?, Hawaii?) Pacific Telesis Pacific Bell (CA) And then there are the oddball at-most-partially-owned-by-AT&T non-Bell companies that somehow managed to take over entire states: Southern New England Telephone (Connecticut) Diamond State Telephone (Delaware)