[Boatanchors] Western Electric

[manualman at juno.com]

"WECo was not broken away from AT&T"

Western Electric (WECo), Bell Labs, and American Bell (this name only
lasted about 6 months and was then renamed Information Systems) were
absorbed into AT&T. The majority of the WECo locations became known as
AT&T Technologies in 1983 actually prior to the divestiture 1/1/84. The
WECO manufacturing locations continued to pump out voice and data type
products for many years after 1/1/84 but unfortunately some were closed
or down sized several years later especially those making telephones.
With divestiture, there were a number of manufacturing changes that had
to be made to many products. Also, the common tag branding "Western
Electric" and "WECo" didn't exist anymore. 

AT&T Technologies in the mid-90's became Lucent Technologies. Between
1/1/84 and probably through the mid-90's, there were so many
organizational changes I lost count. Sometimes you worked for two
different company organizations in the same month. 

Lots of right and wrong info floating around the Internet.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com


On Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:15:25 -0700 Lawrence Godek <lawrenceg94 at gmail.com>
writes:

> After WECO was broken away from AT&T back in 82 or was it 84, they 
> really pretty much went away.  If you could only imagine what all 
> they 
> did and had their fingers it you would realize what a large outfit 
> they 
> were.  A lot of employees  got hurt financially when Judge Green 
> dropped 
> his pounder on the desk in that case. Sad for the Bell co's.  
> Installation work quality went down hill big time thereafter with 
> all 
> the independent installation crews wanting to get a piece of the 
> action.  I worked in a Central office and saw it happen.  All we 
> could 
> do was shake our head in sorrow that things had come to this.  WECO 
> 
> installation work was the best you could ever hope for.
> 
> Larry W0OGH