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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$43.8B
- Private
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Currently AT&T, Inc., formed in 2005 by SBC Communications' purchase of its former parent company, AT&T Corp. As a part of the merger, SBC shed its name and took on the iconic AT&T moniker and the ?T? stock-trading symbol. Despite that the corporation is considered SBC renamed, most of its major subsidiaries were part of AT&T prior to 1984, including the Bell Operating Companies and the long distance division. SBC Communications Inc. was a Fortune 50 company whose subsidiaries, operating under the SBC brand, provided a full range of voice, data, networking, e-business, directory publishing and advertising, and related services to businesses, consumers and other telecommunications providers. SBC held a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which served more than 50 million wireless customers. SBC companies provided high-speed DSL Internet access lines to more American consumers than any other provider and were among the nation's leading providers of Internet services. SBC companies also offered satellite TV service.
Number of Employees 189,000
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NAICS Code : 517310
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Verizon designs data 'gusher'.(Verizon Communications Inc.fiber-to-the-premise plans)(Column)
- 2005-11-28
The last two translations examined theoretical maximums for downstream broadband speeds--first for cable, then for telcos. Because the telcos are taking radically different approaches, we examined SBC Communications Inc. first, which favors augment The last two translations examined theoretical maximums for downstream broadband...
SBC Communications, ASSIA Enter Joint Development and Licensing Pact to Develop ``DSL Optimizer'' for Enhanced Broadband Platform; Companies Collaborate to Improve Next-Generation DSL Performance
- 2005-11-15
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), announced today that its SBC Knowledge Ventures and SBC Network Planning and Engineering units have signed a three-year agreement with Redwood City, CA-based ASSIA, Inc. to develop and license technologies and intellectual property to help manage and enhance the performance of the next...
Broadband calculations, part 2: VDSL.(TRANSLATION PLEASE)
- 2005-11-14
If there's one thing that's wild about telephone companies, it's how much their technology strategies differ, one to the next. SBC Communications Inc., for instance, is taking a path that combines a little bit more fiber with a lot more work...
Telcos' persistence overcomes resistance: the bells again vie for video--and this time, they mean business.
- 2005-08-30
This time the telcos mean it. Years ago, phone company leaders promised to invade cable markets with the latest in pay-video technology. Some did, rolling out hybrid fiber coaxial and wireless networks here and there. But those efforts were tentative at best and ultimately collapsed. ...
SBC takes a hybrid path toward video: Telco's approach to account for multiple formats.(Broadband Week: Advanced Technologies for Video, Voice and Data Services)
- 2005-06-06
Project Lightspeed, SBC Communications Inc.'s grand $5 billion buildout of fiber-to-the-node technology that will allow the telco to offer Internet-protocol television services, is a hybrid optical-fiber and copper network the scale of which will b Project Lightspeed, SBC Communications Inc.'s grand $5 billion ...
Battle of the broadbands: SBC's price cut on DSL may pressure cable to follow.(SBC Communications Inc.)
- 2005-06-06
Phone giant SBC Communications' plan to slash the price of its SBC Yahoo! Express DSL digital subscriber line service to $14.95 a month could signal new price wars for cable operators and other providers of high-speed Internet service, giving con Phone giant SBC Communications'...
DSL surge still can't catch cable modems.(Market Intelligence)(digital subscriber line)
- 2005-03-01
The ferocious effort by U.S. telephone companies employing DSL to catch up with cable broadband installations has brought DSL additions neck-and-neck with cable additions, according to a report released Wednesday. The Leichtman Research Group reported that broadband installations now total more than 33.2...
SBC Communications reports second-largest growth in Q3
- 2004-12-29
By the end of the third quarter of 2004, SBC Communications Inc. has added more than 1.5 million digital-subscriber-line customers through its Internet and data-service affiliates, reaching more than 4.7 million lines in service. The company reported thatBy the end of the third quarter of 2004, SBC Communications Inc. has...
FCC stirs up the race to broadband with new unbundling regulations
- 2004-12-01
Last month the Federal Communications Commission appeared to trigger massive investment in US telecommunications infrastructure by issuing key reassurances over the unbundling of fiber, and first off the mark SBC Communications immediately stepped up and dramatically accelerated its fiber roadmap. But there are question marks over how orchestrated the...
SBC Communications to rapidly accelerate fiber network; Deployment in wake of positive FCC broadband rulings
- 2004-11-23
Michigan Chronicle 11-23-2004 SBC Communications Inc. recently announced that it will dramatically accelerate its plan to build a new fiber-optics network into neighborhoods, providing 18 million households super high-speed data, video and voice services in two to three years, rather than five years...
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