From: Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop   
      
   On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:04:32 -0700 (PDT), hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
      
   >MTA isn't unique in this.  Even though Verizon supposedly   
   >replaced the old Bell names, in the fine print, the old   
   >name of Bell Telephone Company of ..." continued to appear   
   >for many years after Vz came along.   
      
   Many communication companies still exist for legal purposes such as   
   licensing and even though they have been absorbed by larger mergers.   
   Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company is an example, even though   
   after the Bell System divestiture it was absorbed sequentially into   
   the Pacific Bell Company, Southwest Bell Company, and finally AT&T.   
      
   Verizon as a telephone company (in contrast to the mobile cellphone   
   company of the same name) used to be NYNEX which used to be New York   
   and New England Telephone Company which was a post-divestiture merger   
   of NY Telephone Company and New England Bell Telephone.   
      
   :Little by little, AT&T is soldering the old Ma Bell System back   
   together.   
      
   Phil Kane   
   Beaverton, OR   
      
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