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As of 2023, Birmingham has two Fortune 500 public companies: Regions Financial Corporation and Vulcan Materials Company. [1] Multiple other Birmingham companies rank in the top 1000. Private companies with revenue over one billion
South Central Bell Telephone Company, headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, was the name of the Bell System's operations in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. [1] South Central Bell was created in July 1968 when the Bell telephone operations in those states were split off from Southern Bell .
The AT&T City Center is a 30-story, 390 foot (119 m) office building in Birmingham, Alabama. Completed in 1972, the building was originally known as the South Central Bell Building and was the corporate headquarters for South Central Bell and its five-state operating territory.
Map of number plan area 205/659 (red) in Alabama. Area codes 205 and 659 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the western and central parts of the U.S. state of Alabama, including the cities of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. Area code 205 was one of the original North American area codes created in 1947 when AT&T ...
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was a Bell Operating Company serving the Southeastern United States of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. It also previously covered the states of Alabama , Kentucky , Louisiana , Mississippi , and Tennessee until 1968 when those were split off to form South Central Bell .
Front entrance of the Deltacom corporate home office in Huntsville, AL Entrance sign at the Deltacom operations center in Anniston, Alabama. The company was funded by ITC Holding Company. In October 1997, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [4] In 1999, the company acquired Scientific Telecommunications. [5]
The company was founded in 1938. [3]In 1954, employees organized under the Communications Workers of America and held a strike for over a year. [1] In the tenth month of the strike, the company headquarters was dynamited, in connection with a series of dynamite and shotgun attacks surrounding communication workers strikes throughout the Southern United States. [4]
Following the granting of a patent to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and the creation of the Bell Telephone Company, USA: The Telephone Company Ltd (Bell's Patents) registered 14 June 1878, London. Opened in London 21 August 1879 - Europe's first telephone exchange; The Edison Telephone Company of London Ltd, registered 2 August 1879. Opened in ...