Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!decvax!ucbvax!Vms.Cis.Pittsburgh.EDU!JJC From: JJC@Vms.Cis.Pittsburgh.EDU (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Bell Operating Companies Message-ID: <8804101505.AA10033@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 8 Apr 88 04:59:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu >From: Douglas Scott Reuben >Subject: SNET not a Bell co???? ... >I'm not sure what Fred is using to distinguish between a Bell Co. and an >independent. I think the sole difference between SNET and the other Bell >Co.s is that it was AT&T ("The Bell Company") did not have a controlling >interest in SNET. (I'm not sure what the other Bell like that was... >somewhere near PA or sometihng? Anyhone know?) In any event, as I said in The other one was Cincinatti Bell. There was also Nevada Bell Telephone Company that was not owned by AT&T, but by Pacific Bell (which was owned by AT&T). jeff ------------ Jeffrey J. B. Carpenter Computing and Information Systems (Computer Center) University of Pittsburgh JJC%VMS.CIS.PITTSBURGH.EDU@VB.CC.CMU.EDU 110 Old Engineering Hall JJC@PITTVMS.BITNET 4015 O'Hara Street jjc@cisunx.UUCP Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 JJC@CISVM{1,2,3}.CCnet (412) 624-9330 R001JC5K@VB.CC.CMU.EDU