r/thebellsystem

225 archived posts · Dec 2016 – Sep 2026

The Bell System

r/thebellsystem

The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and subsequently by AT&T, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. On December 31, 1983, the system was broken up into independent companies by a U.S. Justice Department mandate.

Created Nov 5, 2016

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