Bell Telephone Company founded
First telephone directory published
American Bell Telephone Company formed
Western Electric becomes Bell's manufacturer
AT&T incorporated
Ottoman Empire bans telephone usage
France nationalizes telephone services
Bell's original patents expire
Independent telephone movement begins
GPO takes over UK trunk network
Strowger Automatic Electric Company formed
NEC founded as Japan's first foreign joint venture
Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company formed
Henry Elston showing off his company's telephones
Over 6,000 independent phone companies
Sears' founder and his favorite phone
Theodore Vail returns to AT&T
Lincoln Telephone Office in Nebraska
Strowger factory
GPO takes over local UK telephone networks
Kingsbury Commitment
Theodore Vail, AT&T president
France creates PTT Administration
Bell Telephone Laboratories founded
C&P Telephone repair shop
Communications Act of 1934
Phone production halted for WWII
NTT Public Corporation created in Japan
INTELSAT founded for global satellite communications
Nokia Corporation formed by three-way merger
Carterfone decision
GPO becomes public corporation in UK
Alcatel created from French telecom merger
British Telecom separates from Post Office
AT&T antitrust settlement
NTT privatized in Japan
Deutsche Telekom AG becomes independent company
Northern Telecom becomes Nortel
Telecommunications Act of 1996
France Telecom privatized
Nortel Networks renamed