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.

Prior to then, the AT & T Long Lines division of the Bell System, which was what AT & T called itself when it was responsible for providing both long distance and local telephone service before the 1984 breakup, provided maintenance and installation of long line facilities for the Bell System's long distance service.

Prior to the AT & T breakup in 1984, AT & T held 89. 8 % of Pacific Telephone.

" Prior to the January 1, 1984, breakup of the Bell System, the corporate name of its principal subsidiary Pacific Bell was The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company, which had also been referred to as " PacTel.

Prior to the breakup, Ben McMillan and Scott McCullum had started the band Gruntruck as a side-project, and continued to perform with the band after Skin Yard's demise.

Prior to their breakup the couple caused a stir by announcing their intention to place their baby daughter in the care of a gorilla in a ritual Aspinall's older children had already taken part in.

Prior to the breakup, many songs from the album were commonly found in their setlists.

Prior to his breakup with his son Floyd Mayweather Jr., he served as his manager.

Prior to the breakup, the broadcast networks relied on AT & T Long Lines ' infrastructure of terrestrial microwave relay, coaxial cable, and, for radio, broadcast-quality leased line networks to deliver their programming to local stations.

Prior to the 1890s Perthshire's boundaries were irregular: the parishes of Culross and Tulliallan formed an exclave some miles away from the rest of the county, on the boundaries of Clackmannanshire and Fife ; while the northern part of the parish of Logie formed an enclave of Stirlingshire within the county.

Prior to 1229, Heston was part of the parish of Gistleworth ( Isleworth ) before being taken by Henry III, who subsequently granted it to the Earl of Cornwall.

Prior to 1968, each parish regardless of population had at least one member in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Prior to 1968, each parish regardless of population had at least one member in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Prior to its incorporation in 1726 as a parish of New Castle, Rye was called Sandy Beach and included land in New Castle, Portsmouth, Greenland and Hampton.

Prior to 1969, most local Roman Catholics worshipped at St. Patrick's in Newry, an Irish-founded parish about away.

Prior to that date, the town was-and is still considerd by some-a parish of Hartford.

By this time the de Laci family had given the living to the Prior and Canons of Llanthony Priory who had spiritual oversight of the parish until the Reformation.

Prior to 1898 it was part of Chesham parish.

Prior to 1934 Cholesbury had been a separate parish and part of Aylesbury Rural District.

Prior to November 2007 the major settlement in Great Marlow was Marlow Bottom which has now become a civil parish in its own right.

Prior to 1649, the area formed part of a larger parish called Kilpatrick.

Prior to 1698, the parish church was situated at Kiltoghert.

On April 9, 1864, a council made of the Archbishop of Manila, the politico military governor of Cavite, the Prior Provincial of the Augustinian Recollect Order and the parish priest of Imus met to discuss the creation of a new town and parish separated from Imus, which eventually became the town of Perez Dasmariñas.

Prior to 1954, Tracy was known as the parish municipality of Saint-Joseph de Sorel ( not to be confused with the town of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, an independent municipality north of Tracy ).

In all, 216 were put to death ; lords and knights, half a dozen abbots, 38 monks, and 16 parish priests, including: Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Stephen Hamerton, Sir William Lumley, Sir John Constable, Sir William Constable, Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx, William Trafford, Abbot of Sawley, Matthew Mackarel, Abbot of Barlings and Bishop of Chalcedon, William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains and the Prior of Bridlington were all executed and hanged at Tyburn between June and July 1537.

Prior to the construction of the first church, the parish offices were located at Mercy Hospital.

Prior to 1898 the town and parish of Ballaghaderreen and Edmonstown was located in the eastern part of County Mayo until its transfer to County Roscommon under the Local Government Act 1898

The parish church, Holy Trinity, was designed by the Arts and Crafts movement architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1889.

In medieval times Reach was a hamlet sitting on the border of the parishes of Burwell and Swaffham Prior and it wasn't until 1961 that it became a separate civil parish.

Prior to the creation of a unitary Shropshire Council in 2009, the village and the parish lay in different districts ( South Shropshire and Shrewsbury and Atcham ).

Prior to 19th century agricultural improvements the parish was sub-divided into ten townlands or ' fermlands '.

Prior to the construction of Holy Trinity Brompton, the present site was a part of the large parish of Kensington which was served only by the nearby St Mary Abbots church.

In 1538 the Prior was pensioned off, and the priory church became the parish church.

Prior to its creation Hallam was a part of the larger Sheffield Borough constituency, which was represented by two Members of Parliament ( MPs ).

Prior to this, the station generally stopped broadcasting at around 6pm, and handed over to BBC Radio 2 which was carried on the station's frequencies until the following morning although for the three years prior to the launch of Night Network, Radio Humberside had broadcast the Yorkshire-wide early evening specialist music programmes which were also carried on Radios York, Leeds and Sheffield.

Prior to 1832 Sheffield had been represented by the Yorkshire constituency.

Prior to World War II, Sheffield Wednesday was one of England's most successful clubs ; they won their fourth Football League title in 1930, and they won the F. A.

Prior to this Hilary had been trained for opera, singing coloratura soprano as an amateur singer with local operatic societies in Sheffield.

Prior to the senior coaching position, he had five successful years as the Queensland Bulls coach in which they enjoyed two Sheffield Shield titles, the one in 1994 / 95 was the first in the state's history, and two Mercantile Mutual Cup wins.

Prior to the California Gold Rush of 1848 – 1855, the Yahi population numbered approximately 400, but the total Yana people numbered about 3, 000.

Prior to this, the municipalities of Warrington and Salford established libraries in their museums, under the terms of the Museums Act of 1845. Warrington Municipal Library opened in 1848.

Prior to 1848, the provincial diet remained the only forum of German political activity.

Prior to its construction, the shallower and narrower Illinois and Michigan Canal ( 1848 ) connected the same waterways for navigable shipping over the Chicago Portage.

Prior to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, California was part of Mexico.