Rochester Telephone Corporation
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Rochester Telephone Corporation
Certificate Type
Common Stock
Date Issued
Specimen, circa mid 1900's
Canceled
Yes
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Machine printed
Approximate Size
12" (w) by 8" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
Additional Details
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Historical Context
Rochester Telephone Corporation (RTC) was for most of the 20th century, the sole phone company serving Rochester and surrounding counties in upstate New York. Some telephone equipment in the Rochester area still bears the company's name. Its initial development benefited from the vision of Albrecht Vogt, an early founder of and investor in several Rochester industries, and yielded a successful company that remained independent from the Bell System up to and through the national monopoly’s divestiture in 1984. As a smaller organization with a high-tech city at its core (headquarters of Eastman Kodak and Xerox) RT often led the conservative and intransigent AT&T when it came to features and customer service, delivering, for instance, Touch Tone and caller ID services well before neighborhoods serviced by Bell’s regional divisions, like New York Telephone.
In 1995, the company repositioned itself as a holding company and changed its name to Frontier Corporation.
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