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More specifically, Nokia bought the parent company of Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent.
by stagger87 6y ago
More specifically, Nokia bought the parent company of Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent.
- DVk6dqsfyx5i3ii 6y agoTo provide more context, Alcatel-Lucent was a merger of the French Alcatel and Lucent. And Lucent was formed when AT&T divested technology business units including Western Electric and Bell Labs.
- flyinghamster 6y agoTo go further, in the 1920s, AT&T[0] was required to divest its international operations, which were sold to newly-formed ITT. Much of those assets eventually went to Alcatel. [0] the original pre-1984 AT&T, not Southwestern Bell d/b/a AT&T
- the_only_law 6y agoI have a bunch of old telecom / networking / engineering equipment from mostly the 80s-90s and it’s always fun to figure out who owns or owned some IP or product.
- gpvos 6y agoIn 2015 apparently, says wikipedia.