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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 climbs the video mountain: telco reveals some details about its Internet Protocol TV service.(SPECIAL Report: TELCO IPTV)(SBC Communications Inc)
Five years from now, consumers with SBC Communications Inc.'s Microsoft TV-powered pay-TV service may be able to program digital video recorders with a mobile phone, hold video conferences via the television or share photos and even home movies wit Five years from now, consumers...
SBC Communications Offers IP-Based Surveillance to Help Businesses Safeguard Critical Network Equipment, Infrastructure
SAN ANTONIO -- Surveillance Solution Allows Centralized Monitoring via Video, Temperature and other Gauges To Alert Customers of Potential Threats to Critical Systems
SBC Communications Selects Lucent Technologies Multimedia Platform to Enable Anytime, Anywhere Access to Consumer IP Services; SBC to Deliver Innovative New IP Applications on Subscribers' Wireline and Mobile Devices
SAN ANTONIO & MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) will provide a comprehensive IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS platform that will help SBC integrate wireline and wireless services in new and powerful ways, and deliver anytime, anywhere access to a "grand slam" of next-generation...
Microsoft expands the world of digital distribution: Windows media technology, IPTV products drive new applications.(Internet Protocol Television)
WHILE MICROSOFT'S WORLDWIDE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT GROUP IS STREAMLINING THE PRODUCTION WORKFLOW FOR BROADCASTERS AND CONTENT PRODUCERS, MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS MEDIA AND MICROSOFT TV DIVISIONS ARE PROVIDING THEM WITH NEW METHODS OF DISTRIBUTING DIG WHILE MICROSOFT'S WORLDWIDE MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT GROUP IS STREAMLINING THE...
Are Policy-Makers Passing The Video Franchise Buck?
The idea that ILECs would like local franchises for video to be replaced by federally authorized state-wide franchising began rolling around congressional halls and House hearings a short time ago, but the discussion surprisingly was on many more lips than anticipated at McCormick Place during Supercomm...
SBC Can't Get IP Services Off The Common-Carrier Hook
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...
FCC rejects bid by SBC for IP dereg.(Federal Communications Commission, SBC Communications Inc.)(deregulation of Internet-protocol platform services)
WASHINGTON -- SBC Communications Inc. suffered a setback last Thursday when the Federal Communications Commission rejected the Baby Bell's request for deregulation of Internet-protocol platform services expected to ride over its $4 billion Project WASHINGTON -- SBC Communications Inc. suffered a setback last...
SBC places big S-A order.(SBC Communications Inc., Scientific-Atlanta Inc.)(Brief Article)
Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has secured a $195 million contract to provide SBC Communications Inc. with an Internet-protocol video operations center, two national IP video "super hubs" and 41 IP video hubs for its video rollout. Set-top Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has...
SBC plans a network overhaul: telco giant sees enhanced IP service as competitive wedge against cable.(Technology)(SBC Communications Inc.)
In a bold bid to remake its network to deliver TV over the Internet IPTV, phone giant SBC struck a 10-year, $400 million deal with Microsoft. By the end of 2005, SBC expects to begin rolling out a four-tier IP-based video, phone, cellular and dat ...
SBC Communications to rapidly accelerate fiber network; Deployment in wake of positive FCC broadband rulings
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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