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Baby Bell

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Ba·by Bell  (bb)
n.
Any of the regional telephone companies created in 1984 when AT&T was ordered to divest itself of its local telephone service operations.
[From (Ma) Bell, nickname for Bell Telephone Company, after Alexander Graham Bell.]
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Take note that while there have traditionally existed long-distance carriers who provided simply long-distance services, today most if not all of the Baby Bells can provide service for all long-distance classes as easily as local service, competing with the long-distance carriers.
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d) Only two remaining baby Bells would be left--huge Verizon in the Northeast and weak Qwest of the Western mountain states.
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The takeover will also enable the new AT&T, which was itself taken over by former Baby Bell SBC Communications last November, to extend its reach in the south-east of the US.
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