Bell Telephone Company

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Bell Telephone Company can refer to:

• The Bell System, a name and trademark formerly used by AT&T.
  • The Regional Bell Operating Companies, which were divested from the Bell System in 1984.
• Bell Canada
• Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company, a company in Antwerp (Belgium), now part of Alcatel-Lucent. Its present-day name is Alcatel-Lucent Bell.
• The original Bell Telephone Company was founded in 1878 by Alexander Graham Bell's father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, who also helped organized a sister company—the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The two companies merged in 1879 to form the National Bell Telephone Company, which in 1880 merged with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company, which in turn became the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), SBC, and BellSouth, which would later merge to become the New AT&T.