More than a century ago, Alexander Graham Bell's historic phone call to Watson marked the beginning of a new voice communications era. The Bell Systems' founders knew that for technology to succeed they needed a sustained research and development organization dedicated to fostering continued innovation. AT&T Bell Labs (first known as Bell Telephone Laboratories) was created in 1925 to answer the call and meet the needs of the future.

Through the next seven decades, AT&T Labs created some of the world's major inventions across a broad spectrum of technologies, including the transistor, cellular communications, the solar cell, the communications satellite, the UNIX operating system, speech recognition technologies, and much more. AT&T Labs is proud of its heritage that has produced seven Nobel Prizes and thousands of patents.

Today, AT&T Labs' commitment remains to create innovations that drive the AT&T global network and help us and our customers rethink possible.