{"id":15239,"date":"2019-12-30T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/att-takes-over-bell-system-3\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:22:46","slug":"att-takes-over-bell-system-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/att-takes-over-bell-system-3\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Takes Over Bell System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bell_System_hires_1889_logo.png\" rel=\"lightbox[4129]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8f375__Bell_System_hires_1889_logo-287x300.png\" alt=\"Bell_System_hires_1889_logo\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bell_System_hires_1889_logo-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bell_System_hires_1889_logo-981x1024.png 981w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bell_System_hires_1889_logo-900x939.png 900w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Bell_System_hires_1889_logo.png 1305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>December 30, 1899<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_Telephone_Company\" target=\"_blank\">American Bell<\/a>, at the time parent corporation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Telephone_%26_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 becoming 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<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/12\/30\/att-takes-over-bell-system\/\">AT&#038;T Takes Over Bell System<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/abc3b__13108473.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/13108473\">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 becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15240,"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-15239","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\/15239"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/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=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}