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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 allows SBC, Verizon mergers — with conditions
- 2005-11-01
WASHINGTON -- Regulators agreed Monday to approve SBC Communications' takeover of AT&T and Verizon Communications' purchase of MCI -- deals that allow the nation's biggest phone companies to grow bigger -- but with conditions. By 4-0 votes, the Federal Communications Commission approved the multibillion-dollar mergers with conditions that...
Podcasting comes of age quickly
- 2005-11-01
(This article originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review, Boise, ID, another Dolan Media publication.)It has been interesting to see how technologies leapfrog each other. Take the Web logging or blogging phenomenon as an example. By using blogging software or Web sites created for blogging, just about anyone can post...
Final federal agency may approve telecom mergers today
- 2005-10-31
Two multibillion-dollar telecom mergers could clear their final federal hurdle today and be approved, with conditions, by the Federal Communications Commission. SBC Communications, which is buying AT&T, and Verizon, which is buying MCI, were close Sunday night to agreeing to concessions aimed at promoting competition and preventing the companies...
US FCC approves two huge telecom mergers
- 2005-10-31
WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Communications Commission approved SBC Communications' acquisition of AT and T Corp. and Verizon's purchase of MCI, increasing the size of the two largest US telecom groups. The FCC's four commissioners -- one seat is vacant -- voted just days after antitrust reviewers at the...
Telecom mergers make progress
- 2005-10-24
Two big mergers that will reshape the telecom industry appear set to clear major hurdles as early as this week. SBC Communications tentatively has agreed to a key concession to win antitrust approval for its purchase of AT&T, and Verizon has done the same for its merger with MCI,...
Mergers may vex regulators
- 2005-09-21
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...
Draft legislation would ease franchising: net neutrality also in House proposal.
- 2005-09-19
Washington -- Within a few days of filing some paperwork and putting up a bond, phone companies would be able to waltz into cable markets and offer video programming with minimal local interference, according to House draft legislation circulated last week. In...
Draft Legislation Would Ease Franchising (Multichannel News)
- 2005-09-19
Net Neutrality Also in House Proposal Washington-- Within a few days of filing some paperwork and putting up a bond, phone companies would be able to waltz into cable markets and offer video programming with minimal local interference, according to House draft legislation circulated last...
SBC Can't Get IP Services Off The Common-Carrier Hook
- 2005-05-11
SBC Communications has been unable to convince the FCC that Internet Protocol IP platform services should be free from common carrier regulation - in large part because a favorable commission ruling on such a request could have stirred up a hornet's nest on unregulated services and competitive...
Qwest Protests SBC-AT&T Combo
- 2005-04-27
Qwest is filing comments at the FCC to oppose approval of the pending merger of SBC Communications and interexchange carrier AT&T, following a similar April 14 filing at California's Public Utilities Commission. Qwest is urging the FCC to seek select divestitures and other conditions "to protect consumers...
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