Subsidiaries

See also: Assignment Bell System

Before the 1984 rupture, the Bell System consisted of the following structure companies:

>>>American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a holding company and long distance operator

>>>Illinois Bell Telephone Company

>>>Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated

>>>Michigan Bell Telephone Company

>>>New England Telephone and Telegraph Company

>>>New Jersey Bell Telephone Company

>>>New York Telephone Company

>>>Northwestern Bell Telephone Company

>>>Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company

>>>South Central Bell Telephone Company

>>>Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company

>>>Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

>>>The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania

>>>The Telephone Company Chesapeake and Potomac

>>>The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland

>>>The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia

>>>The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia

>>>The Diamond State Telephone Company

>>>The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company

>>>Malheur Home Telephone Company

>>>The Ohio Bell Telephone Company

>>>Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company

>>>Bell Telephone Company of Nevada

>>>Wisconsin Telephone Company

>>>Other subsidiaries:

>>>Western Electric Co., Inc. (manufacturing)

>>>Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. (R & D, co-owned by AT & T and Western Electric)

>>>Cincinnati Bell, Inc. (22.7% owned)

>>>The Southern New England Telephone Company (16.8% owned)

>>>Bellcomm