Off topic, but I thought AT&T still owned Bell Labs. It seems I missed the last 20 years in that regard: In 1996, AT&T spun off Bell Laboratories, along with m

Off topic, but I thought AT&T still owned Bell Labs. It seems I missed the last 20 years in that regard: In 1996, AT&T spun off Bell Laboratories, along with most of its equipment manufacturing business, into a new company named Lucent Technologies. In April 2006, Bell Laboratories' parent company, Lucent Technologies, signed a merger agreement with Alcatel. On April 15, 2015, Nokia agreed to acquire Alcatel-Lucent, the Bell Labs' parent company, in a share exchange worth $16.6 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Bell_Labs