Nevada Bell

Nevada Bell Telephone Company

Type	Private (Subsidiary of Pacific Bell, an AT&T company)
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1913
Headquarters	Reno, Nevada, USA
Key people	Stephanie Tyler-Jackson, President
Products	POTS, DSL, U-Verse (FTTN)
Number of employees	850
Parent	Pacific Telesis

Nevada Bell Telephone Company, originally Bell Telephone Company of Nevada, was the Bell System's telephone provider in Nevada. It only provides telephone services to 30% of the state, not including Las Vegas, where service is provided by CenturyLink. Nevada Bell was a subsidiary of Pacific Bell for its entire history, which is the reason Nevada Bell was not listed in Judge Harold Greene's Modification of Final Judgment, stating the breakup of AT&T.

History

Nevada Bell traces its history to 1906, when Pacific Telephone and Telgraph--forerunner of Pacific Bell--bought the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, one of several early telephone companies in Nevada. In transferred its Nevada operations to the newly-formed Bell Telephone Company of Nevada. After the 1984 breakup, its legal name was shortened to Nevada Bell (its popular name for the better part of its history) and it became an operating company of Pacific Telesis.^[1]

Mergers

In 1997, Pacific Telesis Group was acquired by SBC Communications, and although the Pacific Telesis corporate name disappeared fairly quickly, SBC continued to operate the local telephone companies separately under their original names.

Nevada Bell logo, 2001-2002

In September 2001, SBC rebranded the telephone company "SBC Nevada Bell". In late 2002, the company was rebranded again as simply "SBC". Meanwhile, employees of SBC working in Nevada who support SBC's non-regulated services and/or services provided both within and outside Nevada were transferred to other SBC subsidiaries, like "Pacific Telesis Shared Services" and "SBC Operations, Inc." However, for legal and regulatory purposes, employees supporting local regulated services were still employed by "Nevada Bell dba SBC Nevada", which was the SBC subsidiary that provides regulated local telephone services within the franchise territory in Nevada.

On November 18, 2005, SBC completed its acquisition of AT&T Corp. to form AT&T Inc., at which point Nevada Bell began doing business as AT&T Nevada.

References

↑ History of Nevada Bell

AT&T

Corporate directors

Chairman, CEO and president	Randall L. Stephenson

Acquired companies

Bell Operating Companies

Competitive local exchange carrier

SBC Telecom

Long distance services

AT&T Mobility

Internet services

IP services (VoIP, IPTV)	U-verse

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

Other ISPs	AT&T Business Internet BellSouth FastAccess DSL

Directories	Anywho.com Yellowpages.com

Television channels

DirecTV Sports Networks	Root Sports Northwest (40%) Pittsburgh Rocky Mountain Southwest Utah

Other	Game Show Network (42%) MLB Network (16.67%) Audience Network

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

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

Regional Bell Companies	Bell Canada (1880-1975)

Historical

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

Defunct	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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