{"id":14037,"date":"2015-12-30T23:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/att-takes-over-bell-system-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:16:26","slug":"att-takes-over-bell-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/att-takes-over-bell-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Takes Over Bell System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-4129\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F12%2FBell_System_hires_1889_logo.png\" rel=\"lightbox[4129]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4130\" alt=\"Bell_System_hires_1889_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/a27ab__Bell_System_hires_1889_logo-287x300.png\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>December 30, 1899<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBell_Telephone_Company\" target=\"_blank\">American Bell<\/a>, at the time parent corporation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAmerican_Telephone_%2526_Telegraph_Company\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T company<\/a>, reorganizes and transfers its assets into AT&amp;T. American Bell was incorporated in Massachusetts and AT&amp;T was incorporated in New York. Massachusetts corporate laws would have limited the growth of American Bell so by reorganizing, AT&amp;T could bypass Massachusetts law by becaming the parent company of American Bell and the Bell System. Eventually AT&amp;T would become a legalized monopoly in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F12%2F29%2Ffirst-uhf-tv-station%2F\" rel=\"prev\">First UHF TV Station<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/a27ab__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/30\/att-takes-over-bell-system\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 1899 American Bell, at the time parent corporation of the AT&amp;T company, reorganizes and transfers its assets into AT&amp;T. American Bell was incorporated in Massachusetts and AT&amp;T was incorporated in New York. Massachusetts corporate laws would have limited the growth of American Bell so by reorganizing, AT&amp;T could bypass Massachusetts law by becaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4142,3275,730,1528,1889],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-att","tag-bell","tag-over","tag-system","tag-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}