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AT & T / Lucent created its version of voice-mail in the early 1990s ( called Audix ) but it would only work on AT & T / Lucent PBXs.

Northern Telecom | Nortel developed Meridian Mail and followed the same strategy as AT & T in that Meridian Mail only worked with Northern Telecom PBXs.

As a result, neither company achieved much market share with large national or multi-national accounts.

AT & T spun off its equipment business into a company called Lucent Technologies, and Northern Telecom changed its name to Nortel.