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AT&T Corp. (T) is in the Technology Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $118.9B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $11.9B
- Market Cap
- Nov 28 2008
- $168.3B
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Microsoft Memories – Sleeping with Telcos
"So we get married but we don't sleep together?" I asked billg Bill Gates facetiously. It was a late night meeting which had coalesced in his office over whether to make a huge deal with AT&T or MCI. Interested parties drifted in as word...
In Our Opinion: AT&T, MCI Verizon Continues To Harvest Customers
The following feature is part of a larger report just released by activist group TeleTruth. Telecom Policy Report welcomes your comments on this subject. Please send them to Debra Wayne at dwayne@accessintel.com. In 2001, AT&T and MCI had 62 percent of households using their long- distance service. What...
Justice near OK of AT& T-BellSouth deal with no restrictions
The Justice Department is expected to clear AT&T's $67 billion purchase of BellSouth as early as today without requiring any divestitures, say people with knowledge of the matter. Justice could still shift course and require some last-minute concessions, these people say. But the department typically acts on telecom mergers before...
AT&T wins contract from Progress Software and Frost & Sullivan names MCI Asia Pacific most comprehensive data service provider.
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 December 2005-US Financial Network: AT&T wins contract from Progress Software and Frost & Sullivan names MCI Asia Pacific most comprehensive data service providerC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22122005 City of Industry, CA - Wireless Communication industry news provided by...
Hitting the merger pause button: AT&T and MCI were the big ones to watch in the long-distance industry, and now they've been gobbled up by Baby Bells. Are there lessons to be learned for wireless?
WASHINGTON -- Wireless carriers could glean a lesson or two from last month's FCC approved of the SBC Communications/AT&T and Verizon Communications/MCI mergers, which marked an end to the two toughest long-distance competitors, analysts say. The wireless children of SBC and Verizon...
Telcos need 'naked' DSL: FCC adds caveat to AT&T, MCI deals.(digital-subscriber-line, SBC Communications Inc.-AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.-MCI Inc. merger deals)
Washington -- SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are required to provide "naked" digital-subscriber-line service for two years under merger conditions adopted by the Federal Communications Commission Oct. 31. Washington -- SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are required...
Verizon, SBC get OK from Department of Justice.(Late News)
The Department of Justice approved Verizon Communications Inc.'s plans to acquire MCI Inc. and SBC Communications Inc.'s plans to buy AT&T Inc. The Federal Communications Commission was scheduled to vote late Friday on the Verizon-MCI dea The Department...
US Justice Dept. approves SBC-AT&T, Verizon-MCI mergers
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Justice Department approved the telecommunications industry mega-mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC Communications with AT&T, subject to the divestiture of some operations by both groups. The approvals clear a major hurdle to the deals that create two telecom powerhouses in the United States....
AT& T to live on after merger
NEW YORK -- SBC plans to dump its corporate moniker and adopt the fabled AT&T name once federal regulators bless the two companies' merger, people with direct knowledge of the matter say. Those people caution that it's possible SBC's plan could still change. The company might also choose to...
Yankee Group Research Proves AT&T and MCI to be the Bells' Largest Competitors in the Wholesale Market; XO Submits Analyst Data to FCC Showing that AT&T and MCI Together Control One-Fifth of Wholesale Metro Private Line Market
WASHINGTON -- A private report by The Yankee Group shows that AT&T and MCI together account for nearly 20 percent of the wholesale metro private line market, XO Communications charged in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
Mergers may vex regulators
As federal regulators weigh what, if any, conditions to impose on two mammoth phone company mergers, they face a vexing Rubik's cube of possibilities. Any requirements they attach to SBC Communications' acquisition of AT&T and Verizon's purchase of MCI could force some customers to do business with a telecom...
iBasis Tops International Wholesale Carrier Rankings for Fourth Consecutive Year in ATLANTIC-ACM Study; Independent Ratings of Major Wholesale Carriers Places VoIP Leader Ahead of AT&T, MCI, Sprint, Deutsche Telekom, Teleglobe
BURLINGTON, Mass. -- iBasis, Inc. (OTCBB: IBAS), a leader in international long distance, VoIP, and prepaid calling cards, today announced that rankings by carriers place the company as the world's best international wholesale carrier overall for the fourth year in a row in ATLANTIC-ACM's annual carrier study. The study, Global...
Competitive Carriers Challenge Telecom Mergers
WASHINGTON -- Six of the nation's largest competitive carriers and customers today announced the formation of a working group whose purpose will be to challenge the Verizon/MCI and SBC/AT&T mergers, which threaten the significant benefits enjoyed by consumers and businesses as a result of competitive choice. At present, the group...
Consumer groups hung up on mergers: consumer groups contend regulators' review of the AT&T Wireless/Cingular merger set the stage for bad merger decisions ahead.(Service Providers)(lobbying of Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union)
WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups are using last year's behemoth AT&T Wireless/Cingular Wireless merger as evidence that regulators and lawmakers need to take a harder look at some of the pending big wireline mergers. The Consumer Federation of America CFA and the Consumers...
US telecoms face a shake-up after the merger of AT&T and Cingular
The face of US telecoms has changed dramatically in the past year. Following the consolidation of the cellular sector with the mergers of Cingular Wireless with AT&T Wireless, and then Sprint with Nextel, the most dramatic of them all has been agreed--the acquisition of AT&T by SBC, one of the...
Ruling stands on phone networks
NEW YORK -- The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear three appeals seeking to reinstate federal rules forcing local phone carriers to lease their networks to rivals at discount rates set by the government -- ensuring no last-minute reprieve for AT&T Corp. and MCI Corp. in their retreat from the...
Supreme Court lets lower court rulings stand on scrapping phone line rentals.
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--AT&T Corp., MCI Inc., and a number of smaller telephone companies were rebuffed by the US Supreme Court yesterday in their quest to save cut-rate deals to rent Bell System phone...
SBC, AT&T, MCI, 6 other companies unveil new phone-fee proposal.
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
In latest twist in telecom wars, is the end at hand?(Opinion)(MCI Corp.)
Byline: Terrence Barnich AT&T is raising my monthly residential local phone bill by the price of a Superdawg and a Coke, and that's okay. Not because I'm an AT&T shareholder, but because this will turn out to have been a small price to pay...
AT&T, MCI, other phone firms ask Supreme Court to reinstate local access rule.
By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- Incorporated: 1983
- CEO: Mr. Randall L. Stephenson
AT&T is a holding company providing telecommunications services. As of Dec 31 2007, Co. had four reportable segments: wireline, which consisted of three product-based categories: voice, data and other; wireless, which provided a range of nationwide wireless voice communications services in various pricing plans, including postpaid and prepaid service plans; advertising & publishing, which included its directory operations that published Yellow and White Pages directories and sold directory and Internet-based advertising; and other, which included operations from Sterling, its business integration software and services subsidiary, as well as corporate and other operations.
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AT&T Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Randall L. Stephenson
Chairman
Ms. Lynn M. Martin
Mr. John B. McCoy MBA
Dr. Mary S. Metz
Ms. Joyce M. Roché
Dr. Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Ms. Patricia P. Upton
Jaime Chico Pardo
Mr. William F. Aldinger III
Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio
Mr. Reuben V. Anderson
Mr. James H. Blanchard
Mr. August A. Busch III
Mr. James P. Kelly
Mr. Jon C. Madonna
Contact Information
175 E. Houston St.
San Antonio, TX
210 821 4105
NAICS Code
Wired Telecommunications Carriers: 517110
