WIH MA BELL Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

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In this case, Groundspeak has sent an email to the cache owner with no response. The cache owner did not respond to any of the cachers hoping to find the cache and did not respond to the reviewer note so the cache is now archived.

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Hidden : 4/11/2018
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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When I was in High School, I took an English class that focused on Women in History. I thought it was a good time to have some caches related to powerful and or influential women. While MA Bell is not a person, she had a huge impact on history

What is MA BELL?

Telecommunications giant AT&T’s old, nostalgic name. Originally called Ma Bell because it was the primary service provider of telephone services and seen as the mother of the industry.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Bell Telephone" redirects here. For other uses, see Bell Telephone (disambiguation).



The Bell System logoand trademark as it appeared in 1969

The Bell System was the system of companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by AT&T, which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. On December 31, 1983, the system was divided into independent companies by a U.S. Justice Department mandate.

The general public in the United States often used the colloquial term Ma Bell (as in "Mother Bell") to refer to any aspect of this conglomerate, as it held a near-complete monopoly over telephone service in most areas of the country, and is still used by many to refer to any telephone company. Ma Bell is also used to refer to the various female voices in recordings for the Bell System: Mary Moore, Jane Barbe, and Pat Fleet, the current voice of AT&T.



Logo used from 1889 to 1900

Further information: History of AT&T

In 1877, the American Bell Telephone Company, named after Alexander Graham Bell, opened the first telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut. Within a few years local exchange companies were established in every major city in the United States. Use of the Bell Systemname initially referred to those early telephone franchises and eventually comprised all telephone companies owned by American Telephone & Telegraph, referred to internally as associated companies, regional holding companies, or later Bell operating companies (BOCs).

In 1899, American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) acquired the assets of its parent, the American Bell Telephone Company. American Bell had created AT&T to provide long-distance calls between New York and Chicago and beyond. AT&T became the parent of American Bell Telephone Company, and thus the head of the Bell System, because regulatory and tax rules were leaner in New York than in Boston, where American Bell was headquartered. Later, the Bell System and its moniker "Ma Bell" became a term that referred generally to all AT&T companies of which there were four major divisions:

• AT&T Long Lines, providing long lines to interconnect local exchanges and long-distance calling services
• Western Electric Company, Bell's equipment manufacturing arm
• Bell Labs, conducting research and development for AT&T
• Bell operating companies, providing local exchange telephone services.

In 1913, the federal government challenged the Bell System's growing monopoly over the phone system under AT&T ownership in an anti-trust suit, leading to the Kingsbury Commitment. Under the commitment, AT&T escaped break-up or nationalization in exchange for divesting itself of Western Union and allowing non-competing independent telephone companies to interconnect with its long-distance network. After 1934, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) assumed regulation of AT&T. Proliferation of telephone service allowed the company to become the largest corporation in the world until its dismantling by the United States Department of Justice in 1984, at which time the Bell System ceased to exist.[1]

Formation under Bell patent[edit]

Receiving a U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone on March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877, which in 1885 became AT&T.[2][3][4]

When Bell's original patent expired 15 years later in 1894, the telephone market opened to competition and 6,000 new telephone companies started while the Bell Telephone company took a significant financial downturn.[2][4]

On April 30, 1907, Theodore Newton Vail returned as President of AT&T.[2][4] Vail believed in the superiority of one national telephone system and AT&T adopted the slogan "One Policy, One System, Universal Service."[2][5] This became the company's philosophy for the next 70 years.[4] Under Vail, AT&T began acquiring many of the smaller telephone companies including Western Union telegraph.[2][4] Anxious to avoid action from government antitrust suits, AT&T entered into an agreement known as the Kingsbury Commitmentwith the federal government.

All the information needed to solve the puzzle is on this page.

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Ma Bell is a real person = 388

Ma Bell is a nostalgic name = 373

The American Bell company was named after Alexander Graham Bell

DEF= True 443

DEF= False 440

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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