AT&T's local telephone service was broken up into seven Baby Bells in 1984. The breakup gave consumers access to more choices ...

John] Ma Bell, the beloved monopoly mid 20th century ... Narrator] Yep, the 1984 breakup was not the first or second time regulators came after AT&T. The first originated with a 1907 complaint ...

The publicly traded companies created from the AT&T breakup — the seven so-called ... AT&T (the iconic “Ma Bell”) at that time played as central a role in the U.S. economy as Google does ...