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25 Oct 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [David Shepardson, Reuters via @AjitPaiFCC] AT&T Inc, originally known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in 2013 lamented the FCC’s failure to formally stop enforcing some telegraph rules. [read post]
21 Jan 2013, 12:35 pm
For example, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) was a monopoly during much of the twentieth century in the United States in which the company held a monopoly on phone service. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 10:30 am by Kevin LaCroix
” The lead cable network itself seems to be a vestigial relic of the old pre-break-up American Telephone and Telegraph company, so other current telecom companies that are remnants of the pre-break up company would seem to be potential candidates for further lawsuits. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 2:31 pm
I had to schedule a call a day or two in advance with NITEL (Nigerian Telephone and Telegraph, the State Monopoly), and then I would pay $6 a minute for the call. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 9:01 am
A year ago, IPBiz posted a discussion of issues in the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, taken in part from American Heritage. [read post]
31 Jul 2023, 12:39 pm by Kevin LaCroix
” The lead cables are a legacy of the pre-break-up American Telephone & Telegraph company, which built out the network as telephone services were expanded nationally. [read post]
21 May 2016, 8:19 am by Stephen Bilkis
Article “SECOND” of the testatrix’s will reads as follows: “SECOND: I give and bequeath to each of the following legatees the following number of shares of capital stock of American Telephone and Telegraph Company owned by me at the time of my death …” and thereafter names seventeen legatees, each to receive varying numbers of shares. [read post]
7 Aug 2009, 7:00 am
Particularly, in 1891 James K Selleck published the Anglo-American telegraphic code to cheapen telegraphy and to furnish a complete cypher, to enable businesses to share information without breaking the bank. [read post]
28 Jul 2022, 2:00 am by Guest Author
At times, they involved public-private partnerships (e.g. the government didn’t run the telegraph or telephone) and at times they were exclusively public (the postal system). [read post]
As postal mail goes the way of the telegraph, what will matter is the privacy standard for email and other forms of electronic communication. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 8:39 am
Instead, Bell kept the patent and in a few decades his telephone company, “renamed American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), had become the largest corporation in America … The Bell patent - offered to Orton for a measly $100,000 - became the single most valuable patent in history. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 5:41 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Bell filed for his telephone patent on the very same day as an independent inventor, Elisha Gray; the case ultimately went to the U.S. [read post]
5 Apr 2008, 5:40 am
" One wonders what Mark Lemley and the New York Times were thinking when they suggested Gray's invention was good to go:"It's not that we wouldn't have had the telephone. [read post]
10 Jan 2010, 6:29 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
" ["Invent" only appeared at one other place in the story, in the sentence from Isaacson: "You've seen that great Industrial Revolution where people were inventing the telephone, the telegraph, the light bulb, and everything else, the phonograph. [?] [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 9:16 pm by Nerds in Court
  Later, as telephones came about, a pen register could still record information from the electromagnetic pulses used in dialing a telephone number. [read post]