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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$43.8B
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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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FCC OKs SBC/AT&T, and Verizon/MCI mergers
- 2005-11-04
The Federal Communications Commission approved the mergers of SBC Communications Inc. with AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. with MCI Inc. The Commission concluded that consumers will reap the rewards of the public-interest benefits that will flow from these mergers. These benefits include integration of complementary networks, which will...
Communications Law Bulletin - July/August 2004 - Part 1.
- 2004-09-08
The Month in Brief The summer months saw important developments involving many hot issues in the communications industry. This issue of our bulletin reports on a wide range of topics, including a long-awaited industry proposal to reform the current intercarrier compensation regime, the restructuring of the ITFS/MDS 2.5...
ICC staff saying no to SBC's collect call; Advises setting wholesale rate below phone giant's target.(News)(Illinois Commerce Commission)(SBC Communications Inc.)
- 2004-05-31
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON The Illinois Commerce Commission's in-house experts are advising state utility regulators to grant SBC Communications Inc. a far lower increase in wholesale telephone rates than the dominant local telephone company in Illino Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON The Illinois...
Telcos should take their fight to the marketplace.(Opinion)(Brief Article)
- 2004-05-31
Wrangling over wholesale telephone rates is an industry in itself in Illinois. Legions of lawyers, accountants and consultants make their livings arguing over how much competing phone companies should pay to use the network of erstwhile local-service Wrangling over wholesale telephone rates is an industry in...
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Local Phone Service Rules; Oklahoma Unaffected.
- 2004-03-03
By Jim Stafford, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 3--An appeals court in Washington on Tuesday rejected federal rules giving states more authority to determine which companies may offer local phone service within their borders. However, an...
SBC putting wholesale rate hike effort on redial; Pols overturned, issue back in ICC's court.(News)
- 2004-01-12
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON SBC Communications Inc. is resuming its quest to more than double wholesale telephone rates-again-after a federal Appeals Court last fall blocked a controversial new Illinois law that mandated a similar boost. The Texas-ba Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON ...
New ICC team must show it can play in big leagues.(Opinion)(Illinois Commerce Commission)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
- 2003-03-17
New Gov. Rod Blagojevich has changed the lineup at the Illinois Commerce Commission just when the agency faces a series of challenges to its independence and effectiveness as an overseer of the state's utility industry. The responses of the new ap New Gov....
Regulators Vote to Allow SBC Entry to California Long-Distance Market.
- 2002-09-20
By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 20--California regulators on Thursday voted to allow telecommunications giant SBC Communications Inc. to enter that state's $15 billion-a-year long-distance market. San Antonio-based SBC, California's dominant local-service phone...
Court Delivers Blow to Regulations Requiring Shared Phone Networks.
- 2002-05-25
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 25--A U.S. Appeals Court struck a blow Friday to federal regulations that require local phone companies to share their networks with rivals, giving SBC Communications Inc. a significant victory. ...
FCC Fines SBC $84,000
- 2002-02-26
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined SBC Communications [SBC] $84,000 for 24 violations of the commission's rules on collocation. The commission requires incumbent local exchange carriers to post within 10 days, on their publicly available Internet site, notices of ILEC-owned premises that have run out of collocation...
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