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The Bell System Divestiture (1982) 5 (37)

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The Bell System Divestiture refers to the court-ordered breakup of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) monopoly in the United States, finalized in 1982 and implemented on January 1, 1984. The action resulted from an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against AT&T, which had long controlled the vast majority of […]

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