Organizational Analysis SBC Pacific Bell

Organizational Analysis Pacific Bell



Pacific Bell as it is now, is a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC). The history of the company dates back almost 125 years to the actual invention of the first telephone by Alexander Graham Bell on March 10, 1876. Bell Telephone Company was the first formal phone company and it developed rapidly throughout the United States. In 1878 they re-organized and started the beginnings of what we now know as regional phone companies by creating New England Telephone. Then within 2 years the company incorporated as National Bell Telephone only to change its name to American Bell the following year 1880. It would be only five years later that the first long distance company was started. (Farley)
AT & T American Telephone & Telegraph was created in 1885. American Bell was able to buy out the competition Western Electric Telephone (a company owned by Western Union) and eliminate its only real competition to capitalize and strengthen ...