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Bellcore)
Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Communications Research, Inc. or Bellcore, is an American telecommunications R&D company created on January 1, 1984 as part of the 1982 Modified Final Judgment that broke up the Bell System. Bellcore provided joint research & development, standards setting, and centralized government point-of-contact functions for its co-owners, the seven Regional Holding Companies (the so-called Baby Bells) that were themselves divested from AT&T as holding companies for the 22 local Bell Operating Companies.
Bellcore's initial staff and corporate culture drew heavily from the nearby Bell Labs locations in northern New Jersey, plus additional staff from AT&T and the regional operating companies.
In 1997, the company was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Since it no longer had any ownership connection with the Bell regional companies, the name was changed to Telcordia. Stake in the company was subsequently sold in November 2004 to Providence Equity Partners and Warburg Pincus, who currently both hold equal stakes in the company.
The main business dealings consists in providing Operations and Support Systems (OSS) and Intelligent Network systems to telecommunications operators. Telcordia has customers in both the fixed line and wireless markets.