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The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company was the first company set up to develop the then-new telephone. It was formed February 12, 1878 by investors in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the behest of an agent of Gardiner Hubbard, the father-in-law of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
That company had no direct relationship to the later New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which is now part of Verizon.
NewEnglandTelephone was a Bell Operating Company that served most of NewEngland as a part of the original ATandT for seven decades, from the creation of the ATandT national monopoly in 1907 until its breakup in 1984.
NewEnglandTelephone was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and served Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont.
NewEnglandTelephone and New York Telephone were spun off to the newly created Regional Holding Company, NYNEX Corporation.
The NewEnglandTelephone and TelegraphCompany was the first company set up to develop the then-new telephone.
It lasted just a year, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship to the later NewEnglandTelephone, which after the breakup of Ma Bell in 1984 was part of NYNEX, now part of Verizon.
The NewEnglandTelephone and TelegraphCompany was formed February 12, 1878, by investors in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the behest of an agent of Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the father-in-law of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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