He had also led the group that designed the Princess phone for Ma Bell and the "pop-up" SX-70 camera for Polaroid.
It was founded in 1881 as Japan's first telecom equipment maker and turned out a phone just five years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the device.
Bell Atlantic dominates the local-phone market in the northeastern United States, where it has 42m customers.
Chief among the most often cited suitors are the various regional bell operating companies, or local phone providers.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak got their start hacking ma bell, amid their experimentation in phone phreaking Wozniak discovered his technical chops and Jobs learned he could sell and that led rise to one of the greatest technology businesses of our time.
Just as Seidenberg climbed the ladder from assistant technician to CEO, he's helped his company grow from Baby Bell to become the mother of all regional phone companies.
It was his rival, Joel Engel, who was head of research at Bell Labs and also committed to developing the first mobile phone.
Back in 1994, the wireless phone market was a duopoly, with two firms including the local Bell company owning the only available spectrum in each market.
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The only problem here is we weren't able to find a way to skip a point that's been added to your route, meaning if you decide that Taco Bell break perhaps isn't such a good idea the phone will keep trying to convince you otherwise -- loudly.
So they hired a dozen Bell Labs engineers and put them to work on software so robust that even finicky phone carriers would trust it to track and bill millions of customers.
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