On This Day In Telephone History January 24TH 1880, the Cleveland Telephone Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was incorporated under the Bell Telephone Company license. The first telephone exchange service in Cleveland was provided by Western Union Telegraph Co., but soon withdrew after a losing a patent dispute with the Bell Telephone Company. The exchange was then purchased by a Bell licensed company, the Cleveland Telephone Company, which was formed to oversee and market Alexander Graham Bell's technology. The Cleveland Telephone Company operated as the only local telephone company in the city for ten years.

On This Day In Telephone History January 24TH 1880

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On This Day In Telephone History January 24TH 1880, the Cleveland Telephone Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was incorporated under the Bell Telephone Company license. The first telephone exchange service in Cleveland was provided by Western Union Telegraph Co., but soon withdrew after a losing a patent dispute with the Bell Telephone Company. The exchange was then purchased by a Bell licensed company, the Cleveland Telephone Company, which was formed to oversee and market Alexander Graham Bell’s technology. The Cleveland Telephone Company operated as the only local telephone company in the city for ten years.