Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: winter@apple.com (Patty Winter) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Patty Explains the Bell System Corporate Structure Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 04:29:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 38 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 363, message 3 of 7 Patrick Townson writes: >[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] I've been waiting for someone who knows the whole list to respond to Patrick's note, but since no one has, I asked a friend at Bellcore to tell me all the ones he remembered. Here's his reply: >Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 18:08:47 EDT >From: karn@thumper.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) >Here's the list as I remember it: >Pacific Telesis - Tinker Bell >Bell Atlantic - Liberty Bell >Bell South - Southern Belle (there actually is a Southern Bell) >NYNEX - Yankee Bell >Southwestern Bell - Taco Bell >US West - can't remember >Ameritech - Cow Bell "Yankee Bell" doesn't make sense to me because it isn't a pun like the others, but maybe that's the best anyone could think of. I'm also reminded of the article by Paul Shuch in _QST_ a few years ago in which he defined the tacobel (tB) as being the accepted designation for a unit of lunchtime. :-) Patty -- ============================================================================= Patty Winter N6BIS INTERNET: winter@apple.com AMPR.ORG: [44.4.0.44] UUCP: {decwrl,nsc,sun}!apple!winter =============================================================================