Ma Bell

A jocular name for AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation), originally a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company, especially in reference to its monopoly of phone services across the United States and Canada up until 1981. (Its regional subsidiaries, which it was required to divest in 1982 as the result of an antitrust lawsuit, were known as "Baby Bells.") My dad worked for Ma Bell for nearly 40 years as an engineer. If the merger goes through, Ma Bell will once again control nearly all of the telephone operations across the entire country. There were few complaints from people working within the company, though, especially at the corporate level—Ma Bell certainly took care of her own.

Ma Bell

n. AT&T, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; any telephone company. (see also Baby Bell.) Ma Bell is still one of the largest firms in the nation.

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释义	Ma Bell Ma Bell A jocular name for AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation), originally a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company, especially in reference to its monopoly of phone services across the United States and Canada up until 1981. (Its regional subsidiaries, which it was required to divest in 1982 as the result of an antitrust lawsuit, were known as "Baby Bells.") My dad worked for Ma Bell for nearly 40 years as an engineer. If the merger goes through, Ma Bell will once again control nearly all of the telephone operations across the entire country. There were few complaints from people working within the company, though, especially at the corporate level—Ma Bell certainly took care of her own. See also: bell, ma Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. Ma Bell n. AT&T, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; any telephone company. (see also Baby Bell.) Ma Bell is still one of the largest firms in the nation. See also: bell, ma McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: Mama Bell troll booth have a monopoly on (something) monopoly rain stopped play what's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine sipster the old ball and chain come to papa References in periodicals archive Can you talk more about how Ma Bell was a tool of "inclusiv[ity]?"How did you then make sure that production and distribution also reflected that goal--of getting the works "into the hands of readers?" An interview with Maureen Owen Placing the word MA in the middle of the name of the fast-food restaurant TACO BELL reveals both a city (TACOMA) and a nickname for a communications giant (MA BELL). Words to the wise The chain, which run Glasgow's One Devonshire Gardens, have pledged to retain Ma Bell's bar, made famous by Prince William's regular visits when he studied at St Andrews. MESSAGE BOARD: Room for 30 in new hotel on a weekday, airfares were set by the government, the draft was alive and well, and hooking up an answering machine was a good way to incur the wrath of Ma Bell. The halfway mark "People have been with 'Ma Bell' for 100 years, but the time has come that the Internet will support all of our mission critical networking needs including voice," he says. Making the world a smaller place: web-based telecom connects us all As other companies such as AT&T come into the streaming CDN space--thanks to the work to build up the market done by early CDNs--we have yet another set of patents that Ma Bell has held for many years that have to do with video transmission. The patent wars As Ma Bell would say "Reach out and touch someone," I mean, any of us on the Board. Medical assistants on the move A service representative for Bell Telephone at that time, Joan co-wrote an article for this magazine entitled, "Working for Ma Bell," by Snarky Operator and Lippy Representative, which to this day remains one of my all-time favorite CD articles. Women who are changing the world * The long distance giants affirm their commitment to continue merging and merging and merging until they eventually coalesce into one single entity which they will rename Ma Bell. 2007 Resolutions So, inevitably, Ma Bell and her brethren learned to be hip, and consumers of hip learned to think of corporations as providers of fun and (pseudo-)subversive behavior, and suddenly we, the gonzo left, began to sound stodgy and preachy. Looks back Like original "Ma Bell" tariffs and contracts, AT&T's bills are even more challenging to decode than MCI's. Reject AT&T purchase The move would reunite four of the seven so-called Baby Bell telephone companies created when the government ordered the dissolution of AT&T (aka Ma Bell) in 1984. Are we telecommunicating more and enjoying it less? prompted rampant speculation that the old Ma Bell was being reassembled. Creation of the Media He describes the previous, stable world of Ma Bell until 1969, the intrusion of new technologies and competition, divestiture, the impact of the Internet, and the plethora of corporate arrangements and re-arrangements that followed. The great telecom meltdown In a nation where Ma Bell publishes a paper, Canada asks itself: Are media owners too big? EYEING MAPLE LEAF RAGS
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