On: AT&T's predictions of the future (1993)

[brk]

Actually, Verizon is AT&T. My current Verizon account is an AT&T account I activated in ~1994.

Cell phones were a division of AT&Ts overall business and then at some point they spun that out into Verizon. And then later they got back into mobile/cellular via Cingular, essentially competing with their old selves (Verizon).

[threeio → brk]

Verizon was Bell Atlantic (and by buyout NYNEX) and GTE as I recall... So they were already Wireline side of the A/B AMPS system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications