holding of vtech industry customer premises equipment founded 1984 key people kent wong wah shun vice president and general manager products at & t branded telephones parent at & t technologies 1982 1996 lucent 1996 2000 vtech 2000 present website telephones.att.com vtech innovation l.p. doing business as advanced american telephones is a telephone manufacturing company . contents 1 history 2 today 3 references and notes 4 external links history edit american bell consumer products was created on january 1 1983 as a unit of american bell inc. upon declaration by the modification of final judgment that american telephone & telegraph at & t 1 had to sell equipment to the public through an entirely separate subsidiary . american bell consumer products sold terminal equipment traditionally available through the bell system such as the trimline telephone . american bell products could be found at bell phonecenter stores as well as department stores such as sears and target . american bell products were not marked with any bell name but simply marked western electric and the bell logo as any products sold through american bell were not bell system property . upon the divestiture of the bell operating companies from at & t american bell was renamed at & t information systems and american bell consumer products was renamed at & t consumer products and bell phonecenters were renamed at & t phonecenters . bell and western electric markings were replaced with at & t on telephone housings . at & t consumer products became responsible for leased telephones and manufactured telephones on january 1 1984 . at & t consumer products was absorbed into at & t technologies in 1989 . at & t consumer products ceased operations of at & t phone centers in 1995 deciding to simply focus on leasing equipment and on sales at department stores . it along with the rest of at & t technologies and bell laboratories became a part of lucent technologies in 1996 following completion of its spinoff from at & t. lucent technologies consumer products l.p. ltcp became the new name of at & t consumer products in 1996 . its operations remained largely unchanged from its operations at at & t. in 1997 ltcp was placed in the unsuccessful philips consumer communications joint venture . ltcp was retained after the venture failed . in 2000 lucent opted to reorganize its equipment units spinning off its networks systems unit as avaya and selling off its consumer products unit . its telephone leasing operation was sold to consumer phone services and its consumer telephone manufacturing division was purchased by vtech on april 2 2000 . today edit renamed vtech innovation l.p. the former ltcp manufacturing division does business as advanced american telephones . telephone production was abruptly shifted to china . advanced american telephones also entered a 20 licensing agreement with at & t that will end in 2020 to use the at & t brand on all telephones it would produce . in addition advanced american telephones manufactured phones serve as a portrayal of at & t s home phone service and are seen in ads for it . phones made today by advanced american telephones primarily include cordless telephones and some corded phones such as trimline and some multi line desk phones . advanced american telephones also holds the trademark rights to the trimline and design line names as well as others . references and notes edit not to be confused with the at & t of 2005 and later a renaming of sbc communications inc. external links edit at & t phone store press release regarding sale to vtech history of vtech v t e spinoffs of american telephone & telegraph company first generation 1929 graybar electric company 1956 northern electric via western electric 1975 bell canada 1984 divestiture ameritech bell atlantic bell communications research bellsouth nynex pacific telesis southwestern bell corporation us west 1991 1993 unix system laboratories 1996 lucent technologies ncr 1997 at & t submarine systems sold to tyco international 2001 at & t wireless services 2003 at & t broadband second generation spinoffs lucent technologies advanced american telephones 2000 avaya 2000 qlt consumer lease services 2000 agere systems 2002 mediaone group f k a us west u s west 1998 ncr teradata 2007 pacific telesis airtouch 1994 qwest dex media 2002 regional bells telcordia technologies 1997 sbc communications at & t r.h. donnelley publishing and advertising of illinois 2004 yp holdings 2012 southern new england telephone 2014 verizon communications hawaiian telcom 2005 idearc 2006 northern new england spinco 2008 new communications holdings 2010 frontier california frontier florida frontier southwest 2014 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title advanced american telephones & oldid 742622376 categories alcatel lucentat & tvtechhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate 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