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Theodore Vail |
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Theodore Vail (I845 -I9I9)
President of AT&T I885-I887 and I907-I9I9
Alexander Bell invented the Phone,
it is Theodore Vail howether that made the Phone and the Bell company
a huge commercial succes
Theodore Vail was born in Ohio, USA January 16 I845
He started as a Manager for the Railway Postal Service
and it is only in I878 that Alexander Bell's father in law,
Gardiner Hubbard
managed to confice him to join Bell System,
the still struggeling company that had invented the Phone
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Vail left Bell System in I889 ...
long distance facilities improove
On October 18, 1892, Alexander Graham Bell places the first long-distance call
from New York to Chicago
Howether in I907 he returned to the same company
that was now called
American Telephone and Telegraph AT&T
AT&T was once again facing problems due to the expiring
Patent of the invention of the Phone openiong the path for massive competition.
6000 Telephone companies were now providing phone services.
changing Bell/AT&T Logo
During the following Years Vail managed to
create the World's most profitable monopoly
builing an AT&T that controlled the US American Phone Market
also an AT&T that provided the best Telephone Service of the World
the advertising slogan was
"One System, One Policy, Universal Service."
Vail left AT&T in I9I9 to retire for the second time
and died the same year
Following and anti-trust suit filed against AT&T in I974
AT&T was dismanteled in I984
and Judge Greene of the US Department of Justice broke up "Ma Bell" into 8 companies
as well as the new AT&T
Pacific Bell and Ameritech are now SBC
Atlantic Bell is now Verison
Bell South remained Bell South
more coming soon
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