Nortel

Nortel was a large Canadian telecommunications company and one of the oldest technology companies. It was founded in Montreal. The company started making phones in 1895, and the company was called Northern Electric and Manufacturing Company.

At the end of the 20th century Nortel had over ninety thousand employees. Nortel's value formed thirty percent of the capital of the Toronto Stock Exchange.^[1]

Nortel filed for bankruptcy in 2009. ^[2] In 2020, the Vancouver Sun speculated that corporate espionage by Huawei caused Nortel’s failure. ^[1]

The First 100 Years

1895 – The company was created
1900 – The company started making wind-up phonographs^[3]
1913 – Headquarters moved to Montreal
1914 – The company merged with Imperial Cable
1922 – The company started making radios
1928 – The company made the first talking movie sound system
1953 – The company started making television sets^[4]
1958 – The world's longest microwave system
1969 – Started engineering digital telephone system
1972 – Opened a factory in Michigan USA
1975 – Shipped first digital phone system
1976 – The company changes names to Northern Telecom^[5]
1977 – The company started selling digital central office telephone systems
1984 – The company was the first non-Japanese company to supply equipment to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone^[6]
1995 – The company starts engineering of a terabit switch

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