Pacific Bell

The Pacific Bell Telephone Company (or simply Pacific Bell) is an American telephone company and Internet system provider. The name Pacific Bell (as of 2002) is no longer used for marketing although the company itself is still around. It does business as AT&T Inc.. Pacific Bell operates in the U.S. state of California.

Pacific Bell began as the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Along with California, this network was also operated in Oregon and Washington until the late 1960s. Pacific Bell was later owned by the Pacific Telesis Group from 1984 to 1996 or 1997. The Pacific Telesis, though, disappeared rather fast in the late 1990s and from there on was owned by SBC Communicatons along with its subsidiary Nevada Bell.

The Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell names went defunct from 2002 to 2003 or 2004 because doing business as names were not in effect yet. So Nevada Bell and Pacific Bell changed their corporate name to SBC.. The names were later resurrected in 2003 or 2004 and now perform business as the "new" AT&T..

Pacific Bell Media

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  Pacific Telephone logo used from 1908 to 1921

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  Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. service crew, Feb. 1921

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  Pacific Telephone "Call Before You Dig" notice (pre-1984 version)

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  PacBell Building, San Francisco

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  Pacific Bell telephone booth

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  Pacific Bell logo, 1984–1997