On This Day in Telephone History, February 12TH 1878, The New England Telephone Company was formed. This was a licensing, not an operating company. It held an assignment of rights to the Bell patents for New England. The New England Telephone Company of 1878 had no connection with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company formed five years later.

On This Day in Telephone History, February 12TH 1878

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On This Day in Telephone History, February 12TH 1878, The New England Telephone Company was formed. This was a licensing, not an operating company. It held an assignment of rights to the Bell patents for New England. The New England Telephone Company of 1878 had no connection with the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company formed five years later.