[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 ... Effective January 1, 1984, the Bell System's many member-companies 
were ... They continued to exist in their pre-breakup form after antitrust case, but 
no .... SBC purchased Southern New England Telecommunications in 1998 for... [DOC] [TLE] Bell System Memorial- The End of AT&T [PAR] The companystill a telecom giant but more focused on the corporate .... "After 
its forced breakup in 1984," The Wall Street Journal's Rhoads wrote, "it was .... "
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do!" .... January 1, 1984 - Bell System no longer exists. [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Divestiture [PAR] or "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do! ... Timeline of the Legal History of 
Telecommunications ... Litigation costs alone for AT&T up to the January 8, 1982 
announcement of divestiture was ... Bell System facilities, "There are two giant 
entities at work in our country, and they both have ... January 1, 1984 - Bell 
System no longer exists. [DOC] [TLE] The break-up of AT&T is profiled-www.njmonthly.com [PAR] Feb 8, 2008 ... We begin with the breakup of Bedminster-based telecom giant AT&T, which ... In 
an agreement announced January 8, 1982, near the end of President ... At the 
start of 1984, the system is broken into seven regional operating ... The ticker: A 
day after the announcement, AT&T stock rises 17/8 points to 601/2. [DOC] [TLE] From the Fall of the Bell System to the Telecommunications Act ... [PAR] Jan 1, 1999 ... event in telecommunications law since January 1, 1984: on that date, ... demise 
of the vertically integrated telecommunications giant also ... landmark event.5 
Neither the break-up of the Bell System in the early .... negative effect on the 
economy, but rather whether Judge Greene's administration of the. [DOC] [TLE] Breaking Up AT&T: CQR [PAR] Dec 16, 1983 ... On Jan. 1, 1984, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. ... Bell customers are not 
alone in feeling the effects of AT&T's breakup and ... tele-communications.1 
Under the terms of its January 1982 agreement with the ..... and on well-
intentioned but false expectations of what government can do, he said.12. [DOC] [TLE] Michigan Bell Telephone Co. -- Company History [PAR] SICs: 4813 Telephone Communications Except Radio; 4822 Telegraph & Other 
... and Telephone Co. until the break-up of the telecommunications giant in 1984. 
... to be overcome fairly quickly but much to Bell Telephone's distress, it was the 
giant .... The consent decree, to take effect on January 1, 1984, mandated that the
... [DOC] [TLE] Does the AT&T breakup still matter 25 years on? | Network World [PAR] Dec 19, 2008 ... When AT&T agreed to break itself up 25 years ago, it was seen as one of the ... 
necessary, but whether it even had any long-term impact on the telecom market. 
... The breakup deal forced AT&T to spin off its local divisions that would ... 1, 
1984, four of them -- Ameritech, BellSouth, Pacific Telesis and South... [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Corp. facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Bell initially had a monopoly on the telephone because of its patents, but in 1894 
its .... 1999: AT&T acquires cable television giant, TeleCommunications Inc., in a 
$53.5 .... After the breakup, on January 1, 1984, AT&T had $34 billion in assets. 
..... "AT&T: Breaking up Is Still Hard to Do," Business Week, November 6, 2000, p. [DOC] [TLE] CWA History: A Brief Review - Communications Workers of America [PAR] CWA Negotiates Biggest Settlement in Its History  Task Force '71 .... giant like 
AT&T. ... But in 1947, AT&T was not only prepared for a strike, it forced ..... For 
CWA, the most significant event of this decade was the divestiture of AT&T on 
January 1, 1984. The break-up of the Bell System was of great concern to the 
union. [DOC] [TLE]

Question: Breaking up is hard to do, but on January 1, 1984 this telecommunications giant was forced to
Answer: AT&T