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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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SBC Communications Announces Multimillion Dollar Contract to Provide Voice and Data Services to the Golden 1 Credit Union; New Contract Expands Relationship to Include Optical and Data Networking Services
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new voice and data networking services contract with Sacramento, Calif.-based The Golden 1 Credit Union, the fourth-largest credit union in the United States.
SBC Communications Announces Three-Year Contract with MedAssets, Inc.; SBC Companies to Provide Full Range of Voice and Data Services
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced a new voice and data services contract with Georgia-based MedAssets, Inc.
SBC Communications Announces Large Data Services Contract with PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.; New Contract to Establish Nationwide Network-Based Virtual Private Network for More Than 700 Locations
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new contract with San Diego, Calif.-based PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETC), one of the nation's fastest-growing and largest animal-supply retailers.
SBC Communications Announces New Contract with Hawthorne School District; Data Services Will Enable California School District to Accommodate Growing Data Traffic
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new contract with the Hawthorne California School District. The district serves 10,000 students at eight elementary schools, three middle schools and a charter high school.
SBC Communications Announces Data Services Contract with Oklahoma City-County Health Department; Services Help Establish Efficiency, Redundancy
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced a new three-year contract with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department, which provides a range of services to local residents, including community education programs promoting healthier living for older adults, children, and families.
SBC Communications Announces Five-Year Contract with CareTech Solutions Inc.; SBC Companies Deliver Data Services for Healthcare Information Technology Services Organization
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new, five-year data services contract with Michigan-based CareTech Solutions Inc., a technology and health information management outsourcing provider for hospitals and health systems.
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)
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 ...
SBC Communications Announces Voice and Data Services Contract with Permanent General Assurance Corporation; SBC Companies Help Improve Data Reliability, Survivability for Specialty Insurance Company
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new three-year contract with Nashville-based Permanent General Assurance Corporation PGAC, which provides specialty automobile insurance to high-risk automobile owners.
SBC Communications Announces Multimillion Dollar Contract With H-E-B; SBC Companies Provide Voice and Data Services to H-E-B Corporate Offices and Stores
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new voice and data networking services contract with San Antonio-based H.E. Butt Grocery (H-E-B), one of the nation's largest independently owned food retailers with more than 300 supermarkets and 56,000 employees.
SBC Communications Announces Data Services Contract with Sutter Health
SAN ANTONIO -- New Contract Will Provide Network-Based Virtual Private Network Services for Leading Not-For-Profit Healthcare Organization
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