Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: BOCs and Regionals Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 89 16:59:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 88 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 333, message 11 of 11 In article , crew@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew) writes: > 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 Note also that part of Conneticut is service by New England Tel. > Bell Atlantic > New Jersey Bell > Bell of Pennsylvania > Chesapeake & Patomic (Maryland, DC, VA?) The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies include Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, and West Virginia. Add Diamond State Telephone, covering Delaware. > Bell South > Southern Bell (NC, SC, GA, FL) > South Central Bell (KE, TN, Mississippi, AL) As someone else said, add Louisana. > Ameritech > Ohio Bell > Indiana Bell > Illinois Bell > Michigan Bell > Wisconsin Bell > Southwestern Bell > Southwestern Bell (LA, Arkansas, TX, OK, KA) Actually, it's "Southwestern Bell Telephone Company"... and as someone else said, delete LA, add Missouri. > 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?) The three U S WEST "Information Distribution Companies" (IDCs, aka BOCs) have since been reorganized into a single company, U S WEST Communications. As has been said... delete Missouri and Nevada from U S WEST. According to my LATA maps, neither Alaska nor Hawaii are covered by a BOC. (Hawaii is GTE, at least for the most part; I don't know about Hawaii.) > Pacific Telesis > Pacific Bell (CA) Add Nevada Bell, which covers those parts of Nevada not served by GTE et.al. > 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) Actually, no; Diamond State Tel is part of Bell Atlantic, and New England Tel serves at least a small part of CT. In terms of part-sort- of-Bell companies, tho, add Cincinnati Bell Inc. There are also, as someone pointed out, numerous other telephone companies serving parts of the US. GTE is the largest as far as revenues go, and I believe also the largest in terms of number of lines. I don't have figures in front of me, but I seem to recall reading that there are over 300 local exchange carriers operating in the US; and that the BOCs serve on the order of 50% of the geographic area with on the order of 80% of the lines. If anyone else has more accurate numbers, feel free to correct me. -- David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower." [Moderator's Note: Does anyone remember seeing that issue of Teleconnect Magazine (Harry Newton and Company's nice publication) several years ago at the time of divestiture when as an April Fool's joke they published a bogus map of the 'Bell Operating Companies' and had the entity in the southern part of Texas marked off as 'Taco Bell'? :) :) Ciao! PT]