Indiana Bell

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Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated

Type	Private (Subsidiary of AT&T)
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1920
Headquarters	Indianapolis, IN USA
Products	Local Telephone Service
Parent	AT&T (1920-1983) Ameritech (1984-1999) SBC/AT&T (1999-present)
Website	http://www.att.com

Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated, is the Bell Operating Company serving Indiana. It is an indirect subsidiary of AT&T Inc., owned by AT&T Teleholdings.

History

Indiana Bell was founded in 1920 to function as the central Bell telephone company in the state of Indiana. It purchased the Indiana operations of the Central Union Telephone Company and also purchased Indianapolis Telephone Company. It continued to expand throughout the 1920s through acquisitions.

In 1930, Indiana Bell's headquarters building in Indianapolis was relocated 52 feet to the south and 100 feet west of its original location. The move was an engineering feat of its time.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the company continued to expand by acquiring many smaller telephone companies throughout the state.

After the 1984 Bell System Divestiture, Indiana Bell became a part of Ameritech, one of the 7 original Regional Bell Operating Companies.

In 1990, the independent board of directors of Indiana Bell was dissolved.^[1]

Corporate rebranding

The Indiana Bell name continued to be used until January 1993, when they dropped all of their individual Bell Operating Company names in favor of using their corporate name, Ameritech, for marketing purposes, at which point Indiana Bell began doing business under the trade name Ameritech Indiana. In 2001, 2 years after Ameritech was acquired by SBC Communications, SBC rebranded all of its companies to include the SBC name, and Indiana Bell began doing business as SBC Ameritech Indiana. In 2002, SBC rebranded all of its companies simply as "SBC" for use as a national brand. Indiana Bell then starting doing business as SBC Indiana. After AT&T Corp. was acquired by SBC Communications, SBC renamed itself AT&T, resulting in Indiana Bell taking the trade name AT&T Indiana.

References

↑ Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated Funding Universe. Retrieved 2012-05-02.

AT&T Inc.

Corporate directors

Chairman, CEO and president	Randall L. Stephenson

Acquired companies

Local telephone companies

Competitive local exchange carrier

SBC Telecom

Long distance services

AT&T Mobility

Internet services

IP services (VoIP, IPTV)	CallVantage U-verse

AT&T Internet Services	Ameritech Interactive Media Services Pacific Bell Internet Services Prodigy SNET Diversified Group Southwestern Bell Internet Services

Other ISPs	AT&T Business Internet BellSouth FastAccess DSL

Directories	Anywho.com Yellowpages.com

Telephone directories

YP Holdings (47%)

AT&T Intellectual Property

AT&T Intellectual Property I
AT&T Intellectual Property II
AT&T Intellectual Property Marketing
AT&T Properties
Ameritech Properties

Research and development

AT&T Labs

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Annual revenue US$ 126.723 billion (FY 2011)
Employees 252,330

Bell System

Parent company

American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Local telephone companies still extant

Wholly owned	Bell Telephone Company of Nevada The Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia Diamond State Telephone Illinois Bell Indiana Bell Michigan Bell Mountain Bell New England Telephone New Jersey Bell New York Telephone Northwestern Bell Ohio Bell Pacific Northwest Bell Pacific Telephone South Central Bell Southern Bell Southwestern Bell Wisconsin Telephone

Partially owned	Southern New England Telephone Cincinnati Bell

Other subsidiaries

Manufacturing	Western Electric

Research	Bell Labs

Long distance	Long Lines

Wireless	Advanced Mobile Phone Service

Historical

Commemorative	Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site Bell Homestead National Historic Site Bell Telephone Memorial Telephone Pioneers of America Spirit of Communication

Defunct	Bell Telephone Company, National Bell Telephone Company, American Bell Telephone Company New England Telephone and Telegraph Company International Bell Telephone Company The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Northern Electric Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company AT&T Technologies, Inc.

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