Baby Bells

Baby Bells - baby bells is a name originated from the break up of AT&T, the United States telephone company which split into smaller companies in 1984. The split was to make the telephone industry more completive. At the initial break up the Baby bells included the following: Nynex in New York, and the New England area, Ameritech, Bell South, and Bell Atlantic in the Midwest, South Western Bell, US West, and Pacific Telesis in California, and Nevada.  Since 1984 these companies have merged, split, or been sold to other companies