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

Generally, a LATA represents an area within which a divested Regional Bell operating company ( RBOC ) is permitted to offer exchange telecommunications and exchange access services.

* Regional Bell operating company

* Regional Bell Operating Company ( in the U. S .)

The vast majority of the United States are served by LECs called Baby Bells, or RBOCs ( Regional Bell Operating Companies ).

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

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The debate of making incumbent cable operators obligated to allow competitors to wire into their infrastructure is comparable to the Bell Operating Company ( BOC ) issue that split into the Regional Bell Operating Companies.

To foster competition in both the long distance and local markets, the 1996 Act created a process by which the Regional Bell Operating Companies (“ RBOCs ”) would be free to offer long distance service ( which was not permitted under one of the terms of the 1982 Consent Decree settling the government ’ s antitrust case against the former Bell System monopoly ) once they made a showing that their local markets had been opened up to competition.

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Octel, who had high capacity systems in use interally by all seven Regional Bell Operating companies, launched a new generation of its large system specifically designed for carriers and was compliant with " NEBS standards ," the tight standard required by phone companies for any equipment located in their central offices.

Ameritech was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies that was created following the breakup of the Bell System.

* RBOCs ( Regional Bell Operating Company )

4-1-1 landline service has been historically provided by local telephone companies, including those of the former Bell System or subsequent Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOCs ).

In the meantime, the largest facilities-based CLECs, MFS and TCG, had IPOs and then were acquired by Worldcom and AT & T, respectively, in 1996 and 1998 as those long distance companies prepared to defend their business customers from the Regional Bell Operating Companies ' ( RBOC ) incipient entry into the long distance business.

* Regional Bell operating company

In 2007, Governor Tim Pawlenty appointed the Council Chair to Peter Bell and the Regional Administrator to Tom Weaver.

BellSouth was one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies after the U. S. Department of Justice forced the American Telephone & Telegraph Company to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.

BellSouth was the last of the Regional Bell Operating Companies to keep its original corporate name after the 1984 AT & T breakup, as well as the last one to retain the Bell logo as part of its main corporate identity.

* The Regional Bell Operating Companies, which were divested from the Bell System in 1984.

* Southwestern Bell Corporation or SBC Communications ( now AT & T ), one of the seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies

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DMS-100 and 200 switches are widely deployed throughout the U. S. and Canada by Regional Bell Operating Companies, Bell Canada and independent telephone companies as well as the US Military.

Verizon was formed in 2000 when Bell Atlantic, one of the Regional Bell Operating Companies, merged with GTE.

Prior to its transformation into Verizon, Bell Atlantic had merged with another Regional Bell Operating Company, NYNEX, in 1997

RBOCs were originally known as Regional Holding Companies ( RHCs ).

The PC was organized on similar lines to the army, and consisted of a General Staff located at its General Headquarters at Camp Crame, Manila, and 12 Regional Commands ( under a Regional Director ) consisting of 104 Provincial Commands ( under a Provincial Commander ); these controlled the 450 PC Companies which performed all the day-to-day military police work.

Category: Companies based in the Halifax Regional Municipality

* Regional Electricity Companies

It is unique amongst City Livery Companies in having active Regional Committees in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and North America, and unique in being permitted to continue to be called a Guild notwithstanding its status as a Livery Company.

An incumbent local exchange carrier ( ILEC ), is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT & T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOCs ), also known as the " Baby Bells.

Pacific Telesis Group was one of the seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, sometimes also referred to as " RBOCs " or " Baby Bells ", created in 1983 in preparation of the breakup of AT & T as a holding company for Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, Pacific Telesis International and several other non-regulated companies including PacTel Mobile Services and PacTel InfoSystems.

US West, Inc. was one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOC's, also referred to as " Baby Bells "), created in 1983 under the Modification of Final Judgement ( United States v. Western Electric Co., Inc. 552 Fed.

Their lead in this push became one that many other Regional Bell Operating Companies had to scramble to keep up with.

TL1 was developed by Bellcore in 1984 as a standard man-machine language to manage network elements for the Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOCs ).

Therefore, neither is considered a Regional Bell Operating Company ( RBOC ), AT & T was not obligated to dispose of their ownership stakes in the companies, and restrictions placed on the Baby Bells did not apply to these two companies.

By establishing the seven Regional Bell Operating Company ( RBOC ) carriers as independent entities, the U. S. market for telecommunications expanded by 90 percent.

The objective was to make it easier for a vendor to design equipment compatible with a typical Regional Bell Operating Company ( RBOC ) central office ( CO ).

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

Regional bone infection ( BCG osteomyelitis or osteitis ) and disseminated BCG infection are rare complications of BCG vaccination, but potentially life threatening.

Basel's local rail services are supplied by the Basel Regional S-Bahn.

The second, larger inventory is the Regional Inventory ( RI ), which is broken down by county and contains both those pubs listed in the NI and other pubs that are not eligible for the NI, due to reasons such as having been overly modified, but are still considered historically important, or have particular architectural value.

Regional rail does not exist in this sense in the United States, so the term " regional rail " has become synonymous with commuter rail there, although the two are more clearly defined in Europe.

In the U. S. Sea Scouting program ( which is part of the Boy Scouts of America ), all National, Regional, Area, and Council committee chairs are titled as commodore, while senior committee members are addressed as vice commodore.

Regional churches assist congregations who are seeking ministers and ministers who are seeking congregations.

Though they have no authority to direct the life of any congregation, the Regional Churches are analogous to the middle judicatories of other denominations.

Regional bus lines have been regulated by the provincial administration to protect old transit companies, leading to cartel situations like TLO in the Turku region, but strong regional regulating bodies, like the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority ( HSL / HRT ), whose routes are put out to tender exist as well and will become the norm after the transitionary period during the 2010s.

Regional appellation laws may dictate the types of spirit that are permitted for fortification.

There are also the planned European Union Galileo positioning system, Chinese Compass navigation system, and Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System.

Trunk roads in Ghana are classified as National roads, Regional roads, and Inter-regional roads, all of which form the Ghana road network.

Regional roads, designated with the letter R, are a mix of primary and secondary routes, which serve as feeder roads to National roads ; while Inter-Regional roads, designated with the prefix IR, connect major settlements across regional borders.

Harwich and Chatham are regionalizing to become Monomoy Regional School District.

Services to the Aran Islands are operated from Aerfort na Minna ( Connemara Regional Airport ).

Other Irish airlines are Ryanair, one of the largest in the world, Aer Arann, CityJet, Air Contractors and the newly launched Aer Lingus subsidiary Aer Lingus Regional.

The IAEA has two " Regional Safeguards Offices " which are located in Toronto, Canada, and in Tokyo, Japan.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

Canada – Japan relations are underpinned by their partnership in multilateral institutions: the G-7 / 8 ; the United Nations ; the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Quad ( Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States ), and by their common interest in the Pacific community, including participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum ( APEC ) and the ASEAN Regional Forum ( ARF ).

All further-and higher-education organisations in the UK are connected to Janet, as are all the Research Councils ; the majority of these sites are connected via 20 metropolitan area networks ( though Janet refers to these as Regional Networks, emphasising that Janet connections are not just confined to a metropolitan area ) across the UK.