This structure is a result of 1984 divestiture of then-regulated monopoly carrier American Telephone & Telegraph.

After the divestiture of Pacific Bell ( California ) and AT & T in 1984, it wasn't long before independent stores selling telephones opened up.

One of the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment that led to the Bell System divestiture prohibited AT & T from using the Bell name after January 1, 1984 ; prior to this, AT & T's plan was to market products and services under the American Bell name, accompanied by the now familiar AT & T globe logo.

Prior to the Bell System divestiture on January 1, 1984, American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ) through its Bell System companies held a natural monopoly for telephone service within the United States.

AT & T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation ( and before that American Information Technologies Corporation ), was a U. S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT & T divestiture.

Since the 1984 Bell System divestiture, the RBOCs in the United States have priced 4-1-1 use higher to an average of $ 1. 25 USD per call, compared to $ 0. 50 CAD in most of Canada, providing opportunities for competing services in the United States, such as ad-sponsored 1-800-FREE-411.

Though the Bell System divestiture of 1984 dissolved the monopoly that inspired the term ( though SBC, one of the Baby Bells created then, ultimately bought AT & T and assumed its name ), universal service remained official U. S. telecommunications policy under the 1934 Act, even as the FCC began to abandon rate regulation.

* 1984: AT & T completes the divestiture of its local operating companies.

The largest, and likely most famous, corporate divestiture in history was the 1984 U. S. Department of Justice-mandated breakup of the Bell System into AT & T and the seven Baby Bells.

Prior to the divestiture of the Bell System on January 1, 1984, the Bell Labs Processor Division had developed the 3B20D (" D " for Duplex ); the commercial simplex version 3B20S, which competed with the DEC VAX for internal Bell System usage ; the world's first 32-bit microprocessor, the BELLMAC 32A ; and, using this microprocessor, the 3B5 and 3B15 computers for billing and telecom switching control applications.

After divestiture, January 1, 1984, American Telephone & Telegraph was required to put its computer business into a fully separated subsidiary called AT & T Information Systems ( ATTIS, without the ampersand or hyphen ).

The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard desk-style domestic telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from late 1949 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture.

At the time of the Bell System divestiture in 1984, each Regional Bell Operating Company ( Baby Bell ) was given a portion of the Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) network corresponding to its service area.

The networks fed to both Satcom 1 and AT & T's network at the same time ( for the benefit of those stations who hadn't yet been equipped with earth station equipment for reception of the satellite ) up until the breakup of AT & T in 1984, when the networks switched exclusively to satellite distribution on Satcom 1 ( and later satellites ), due to the much lower transmission costs, as well as due to AT & T's divestiture itself.

* Bell System, the organization that provided telephone service in the United States until 1984

* Regional Bell Operating Company, any of the phone companies spun-off from AT & T in 1984

* Wisconsin Bell, ( 1984 – 1999 )

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At the Computer History Museum TX-0 alumni reunion in 1984, Gordon Bell said DEC's products developed directly from the TX-2, the successor to the TX-0 which had been developed at what Bell thought was a bargain price at the time, about.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

Spaceship Earth was sponsored by Bell System from 1982 to 1984, then AT & T ( Bell System's parent company, following the Bell System Divestiture ) from 1984 until 2003.

Prior to its breakup in 1984, Bell System's legal monopoly over telephony in the United States allowed the company to impose strict rules on how consumers could access their network.

Krusty's voice is based on Chicago television's Bob Bell, who had a very raspy voice and portrayed WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown from 1960 to 1984.

Dan Castellaneta based his voice characterization on Chicago television's Bob Bell who had a very raspy voice and portrayed WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown from 1960 to 1984.

* Max Charlesworth, Howard Murphy, Diane Bell and Kenneth Maddock, ' Introduction ' in Religion In Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, University of Queensland Press, Queensland, Australia, 1984.

Effective January 1, 1984, AT & T Corp .' s local operations were split into seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies known as " Baby Bells ".

Prior to 1984, AT & T Corp. also held investments in two smaller and otherwise independent companies, Cincinnati Bell and Southern New England Telephone ( SNET ).

The technique of using a focused laser beam as an atom trap was first applied in 1984 at Bell laboratories.

The film is set during the 1984 – 1985 UK miners ' strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot ( Jamie Bell ), his love of dance and his hope to become a professional ballet dancer.

Bassist Dave Schools met Bell and Houser in 1984 and first played with them on February 24, 1985, at the A-Frame house on Weymanda Court in Athens.

* Ricky Bell ( 1955 – 1984 ), football player

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

* 1984 — Metaphor Computer Systems, founded by David Liddle and Don Massaro, releases Data Interpretation System ( DIS ).

* Eldred, Michael ( 1984 ) Critique of Competitive Freedom and the Bourgeois-Democratic State: Outline of a Form-analytic Extension of Marx's Uncompleted System.

The alibi of the murderer in Simon Brett ’ s comic thriller Shock to the System ( 1984 ) depends on having been in a cinema watching Life of Brian.

On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. ( now Apple Inc .) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.

The ACM Software System Award recognized the Alto system in 1984, Smalltalk in 1987, InterLisp in 1992, and Remote Procedure Call in 1994.

HP-UX ( Hewlett-Packard UniX ) is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V ( initially System III ) and first released in 1984.

Network File System ( NFS ) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed.

WGS 84 is the World Geodetic System of 1984.

Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness ( 1960 ), Simon Brett's A Shock to the System ( 1984 ), and Stephen Dobyns's The Church of Dead Girls ( 1997 ).

In 1984, a high priority mission to Mars was set forth by the Solar System Exploration Committee.

* The Buddy System ( 1984 )

The Seaboard System Railroad ceased all railroad service to Elba, including freight service, on November 27, 1984.

* Martha Seger, economist, in 1984 became first woman appointed to a full term on the Federal Reserve Board, Governor of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D. C. from 1984 – 1991

He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System ( 1984 ) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.

It is based on the 1984 novel A Shock to the System by British author Simon Brett.

One application was Konami's Bubble System arcade video game system, introduced in 1984.