[DOC] [TLE] Breakup of the Bell System - Wikipedia [PAR] The breakup of the Bell System was mandated on January 8, 1982, by an agreed 
consent ... AT&T's gambit in exchange for its divestiture, AT&T Computer Systems
, ... It would soon be absorbed by one of the Baby Bells, SBC Communications ... 
which renamed itself AT&T Inc. and began using the ticker symbol "T" and a new
... [DOC] [TLE] THE SECOND BREAKUP OF AT&T - THE REORGANIZATION ... [PAR] Sep 21, 1995 ... More than a decade after breaking up the Bell System to settle a Federal ... AT&T 
said it would divide its business into three companies: communications services, 
... still to be named, will take over AT&T's giant business in the making ... In 1982, 
AT&T agreed to divest itself of its local telephone system by... [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Agrees to Buy Time Warner for $85.4 Billion - The New York ... [PAR] 6 days ago ... The telecommunications giant agreed on Saturday to buy Time Warner, the ... 
AT&T and Time Warner said both of their boards unanimously approved the deal. 
... follies of all time, when it sold itself to AOL at the height of the dot-com boom. ... 
One of the former so-called Baby Bells that arose from the 1982... [DOC] [TLE] u.s. settles phone suit, drops i.b.m. case; a.t.& t. to split up ... [PAR] Published: January 9, 1982 ... The heart of the agreement requires A.T.& T. to 
give up all its wholly owned ... all rapidly growing and a profitable aspect of the 
telecommunications industry. ... In divesting itself of local telephone subsidiaries, 
it would be ... a separate subsidiary - sometimes dubbed Baby Bell -that could not 
be... [DOC] [TLE] Bell System Memorial- The End of AT&T [PAR] AT&T retained its long-distance service, along with Bell Telephone ... The 
companystill a telecom giant but more focused on the corporate market
agreed to be acquired by one of the Baby Bells, SBC Communications Inc. of San 
Antonio, in a ... all to itselfan advantage that helped the company reestablish its 
monopoly,... [DOC] [TLE] History of AT&T: Time Warner deal is only the latest evolution - Oct ... [PAR] 5 days ago ... The story of Ma Bell is one of destruction, reinvention and constant ... Its imagined 
future is as a communications behemoth -- broadband ... when the government 
forced AT&T to break up in 1982 because of more ... Meanwhile, its local 
telephone operations were divested and turned into seven "Baby Bells. [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Corp. to divide into three Telecommunications to be separated ... [PAR] Sep 21, 1995 ... In a move that could aid its re-entry into the local phone business, AT&T Corp. ... 
split itself into three parts, reshaping the telecommunications giant nearly as. ... 
as the 1982 divestiture agreement that broke up the old Bell system. ... to be 
tempered by its curiously conflicted relationship with the "Baby Bells. [DOC] [TLE] From the Fall of the Bell System to the Telecommunications Act ... [PAR] Jan 1, 1999 ... demise of the vertically integrated telecommunications giant also ... 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 largely continues the 1982 consent ... 
Competition Upon Baby Bell Entry and Attaining Local Exchange Competition: 
We'll Not ...... company of the Bell System) agreed to divest itself of all ownership. [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Corp. - WSJ [PAR] Mar 31, 2001 ... But in truth, the telecommunications giant had been fighting with the federal ... in 
which AT&T agreed to divest itself of Western Union and its telegraph operations, 
... In 1982, AT&T decided to surrender, bloodied by the Justice ... into the seven 
Baby Bells, with AT&T keeping its long-distance business, the... [DOC] [TLE] Comcast Battle With AT&T Points to Diverging Paths - Page 2 - latimes [PAR] Jul 12, 2001 ... "AT&T had its eyes further down the road than the others, but the timing was ... is 
the latest development in the dismantling of the communications giant, ... 1982: 
AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 regional companies, and in 1984 the ... seven 
regional phone companies, which become

Question: In 1982 this communications giant agreed to divest itself of its Baby Bells
Answer: AT&T