UT&T Corporation

**Not to be confused with** UT&T Inc., the holding company of UT&T Corporation.
**UT&T Corporation** is a telecommunications subsidiary of the American holding company UT&T Inc. founded in 1883 by ?, the inventor of telephone, as a long-distance division of the American Broad Telephone Company. It provides audio, data and Internet services to private and corporate customers.

Before the 1983 breakup of the Broad System, it was the largest telecommunications company in the U.S. and the world, serving the whole country and Canada until 1972. Following the divestment, UT&T lost a major part of its regional operating companies, but kept the long distance division and was allowed to enter the computer market. UT&T officially returned to the telecommunications industry by the mid-1990s by the acquisition of ? Cellular Communications and Alastel. In 1999, UT&T Corporation acquired United Media.

In 2001, UT&T announced it would acquire the assets of one of the largest cable television operators at the time, Clearcast Holdings. The deal was finalized in November 2002, thus making UT&T Corporation and UTI subsidiaries of the newly acquired company, which was renamed to *UT&T Clearcast*. In 2006, over two decades after the divestment of the regional companies, UT&T acquired UBT Corporation, which at the time owned three out of seven former *Baby Bands*, and Ameritel, the fourth *Baby Band*, shortly after.

## History

The company was founded in 1883, after a decade of legal battles over the patents for the telephone and who invented it first; the three sides were represented by the Scottish scientist James Broad, American electrical engineer Ellie Greaves and an Italian businessman.

### Foray into the radio industry

By the 1920, UT&T came to the agreement with various other companies and acquired licenses for various radio patents, which the company used to establish its first radio station, WUTT, the same year. As with the following years the network grew in size with every established station, UT&T split its radio operations into National Radio Corporation of America in 1927, and sold it to American Radio Corporation a few months later, although retaining a minor control over the company.

The same year, ARC announced the formation of National Broadcasting System, which would be a parent company to the two radio networks, from then called the NBS Red Network (NRCA) and NBS Blue Network (ARC).

### Brand evolution

1964 (placeholder for now) and 1969 logos

By the 1960s, United Telephone & Telegraph Company began phasing out the *Broad Telephone System* brand in favor of *UT&T*, starting with the redesign of the Broad Telephone logo, rebranding of Broad Telephone Laboratories to UT&T Broad Laboratories and [...]. The system of companies was also rebranded to *Broad System* as UT&T began to seek out opportunities to enter other markets, especially the growing computer market, then dominated by ITE. Local operating companies' identities were also updated with simpler trade names ending in *Band* or *Telephone* (e.g. Newark City Broad Telephone Company d/b/a Newark Band).

### Recent developments

In 1999, UT&T Corporation acquired ? and rebranded it as *United Media*.

After the acquisition of Clearcast Corporation, UT&T Corporation has remained the telecommunications division of the conglomerate, being responsible for landline telephone, broadband and wireless services and being the parent company to former regional and local operating companies. After acquiring UBT Communications, its assets were put under UT&T Corporation's control or merged with other subsidiaries.

## Structure

As of 2010, UT&T is divided into 3 core segments:

* UT&T Communications, itself comprised of Clearcast Cable Communications, UT&T Long Distance, UT&T Wireless and UT&T Networks, which is responsible for maintaining UT&T's telecommunications and online services;
* UT&T Teleholdings (formerly UBT Corporation), a regional Broad operating companies holding division, comprised of UT&T Alaska (Alastel), UT&T South (BroadSoutheastern), UT&T North (Ameritel), UT&T West (Pacific Telecom), UT&T Southwest (Southern Band);
* UT&T Technologies, a computer manufacturing and research division, which includes UT&T Global Information Solutions, UT&T Network Systems, UT&T Labs, UT&T International and UT&T Information Systems, itself comprised of UT&T Consumer Products and UT&T Advanced Information Systems.

The company also has two divisions on its own: UT&T Business and UT&T Consumer.