Did you know that after receiving his patent for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell tried selling it for $100,000? In what is regarded as one of the biggest mistakes in business history, the company he offered it to turned down the proposal, dismissing the invention as a toy without any real use. Mr Bell eventually established his own company – American Telephone & Telegraph – which later became AT&T Corporation.
Today, AT&T provides over 130 million people in the US with wireless service, and its cellular network covers more than 99% of the US population. It also ...
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