Rochester Telephone got its start late in the nineteenth century.

Rochester Telephone, which had invested heavily in the enterprise, suffered severe financial damage with its bankruptcy.

Two years later, after a long controversy, Rochester Telephone won the right to bill its business customers by call, rather than on a flat rate.

The 1930s proved to be a difficult decade for Rochester Telephone.

As revenues and earnings fell, Rochester Telephone began to cut its work force in an effort to keep costs down.

This boon produced over $60,000 in additional annual revenues for Rochester Telephone.

In 1944 Rochester Telephone sold stock to the public for the first time.

Rochester Telephone in the late 1940s faced a severe public relations problem.

To prepare for further growth, Rochester Telephone initiated employee training programs in the late 1960s.

In the mid-1970s, Rochester Telephone experienced its first taste of the competition.