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AT&T plans to discontinue landline phone service in nearly every state, including Ohio, by the end of the decade. The company announced that it intends to phase out its copper wire infrastructure ...

AT&T dominated the telephone market for most ... in 1949 looking to break the vertical link between Bell's telephone service and its manufacturing arm, Western Electric, which leased telephones ...