AT&T dominated the telephone market for most of the 20th century. The company was so big, it was forced to break up into eight smaller companies in 1984. Today, almost all of those companies are ...

I think there’s broad support for it,” said Albany insider Jack O’Donnell of O’Donnell and Associates when asked about a cell phone ban in schools starting this fall. But it may have some ...

He had offered the many independent telephone companies across the nation access to his long-distance lines in exchange for merging their local service into Bell Systems. These terms were too ...

In 1925, AT&T added another subdivision: Bell Laboratories, which focused on basic research to improve phone technology. With control of phone service, phone manufacturing, and research ...

the Bell System referred to AT&T and all the Bell Telephone companies that were part of it, but had separate names to provide a regional flavor. The Bell name, of course, came from Alexander ...

The former Ohio Bell Telephone Building was in the news recently after it was announced that owner AT&T had sold the building to a private investment company for $14.9 million.

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Many know the story of the telephone's invention by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson, ending in the call with the famous words "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." However ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling for New York state schools to ban cell phones bell-to-bell. Hochul is asking the Legislature to include the policy in her state budget. It wouldn’t require schools to ban ...

Rochester, N.Y. — There's a heightened push to ban cell phones in schools across New York state. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced ...