AT&T Archives: The History of AT&T, Part 1

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AT&T in 2000 was a company in a state of flux. A few years earlier, it had restructured into three different companies — one spun off on its own, and the other was acquired. The company started to put efforts into expanding its cable services nationally. By 2000, the amount of data carried by AT&T's network exceeded the amount of voice data from phone calls, and AT&T Broadband became the largest cable company in the United States.

This film is probably the shortest made by AT&T on its own history, but it is packed full of information. It's interesting to see what portions of the company's deep and wide history are focused upon at this point in time — and what parts of the history are omitted.

This is part one of two, and covers the history of the company from 1876 until the 1940s.

Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ