The company was so big ... Another antitrust suit was launched in 1949 looking to break the vertical link between Bell's telephone service and its manufacturing arm, Western Electric, which ...

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company (or AT&T) began as Bell Telephone in 1877. Bell Telephone was founded by Alexander Graham Bell a year after he'd invented the telephone. That year the ...