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| AT&T Ohio | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | September 1922; 102 years ago (1922-09) |
| Headquarters | 750 Huron Road,, United States |
| Products | Local Telephone Service |
| Parent | AT&T Corp. (1922-1983) Ameritech (1984-1999) SBC/AT&T Inc. (1999-present) |
| Website | www |
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company, now doing business asAT&T Ohio, is theBell Operating Company serving most ofOhio and parts ofWest Virginia. It is a wholly owned subsidiary ofAT&T.
Its headquarters is theOhio Bell Building at 750 Huron Road,Cleveland,Ohio, and formerly had a secondary headquarters at 150 East Gay Street,Columbus, Ohio, now theContinental Center. Ohio Bell is not affiliated withCincinnati Bell, which servesCincinnati, Ohio and other surrounding communities.
After the 1984Bell System Divestiture, Ohio Bell became a subsidiary ofAmeritech, one of the seven originalRegional Bell Operating Companies. TheOhio Bell name continued to be used until January 1993, when Ameritech dropped all of its individual Bell Operating Company names in favor of its corporate name for marketing purposes; Ohio Bell then began doing business asAmeritech Ohio.
After Ameritech was acquired bySBC in 1999,[1] Ohio Bell continued to retain the "Ameritech" brand until 2001, when it began doing business asSBC Ameritech Ohio. A year later, in 2002, SBC dropped the Ameritech name in favor of "SBC" as a national brand, resulting in the trade name ofSBC Ohio. On January 15, 2006, after SBC's acquisition of AT&T,[2][3] Ohio Bell's trade name was changed, again, toAT&T Ohio, a name which it continues to use today.
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