The first incarnation of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was a short-lived company set up to develop the then-new telephone. It should not be confused with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company that was formed a year later and became one of the largest of the regional Bell Telephone Companies.
New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation, now part of Verizon.
New England Telephone and Telegraph merged with the
Theodore Vail took over its operations. The National Bell Telephone Company merged with others on March 20, 1880, to form the American Bell Telephone Company.[2]
Later acquisition of American Bell by AT&T
The American Bell Telephone Company was later purchased by its own subsidiary,
The New AT&T
.
See also
The Bell System, a name and trademark formerly used by AT&T.
The
Regional Bell Operating Companies
, which were divested from the Bell System in 1984.
