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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$43.8B
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- US
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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...
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...
Microsoft expands the world of digital distribution: windows media technology, IPTV products drive new applications.
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...
SBC, Verizon execs say '05 will bring big start in video.(Cable Rivals Tango in Vegas)
LAS VEGAS -- This Consumer Electronics Show might well be remembered as tire video coming out party for the big phone companies. From a main address by SBC Communications Inc. CEO Edward Whitacre, to Microsoft Corp.'s news that it was testing ...
SBC Communications to Highlight IPTV Plans at 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show
SAN ANTONIO -- Jeff Weber to Discuss Company's Entertainment and Communications Strategy On Digital Hollywood Panel
FCC holds up SBC's Dereg bid: Telco seeks ruling that would make IPTV Exempt from cable-like restrictions.
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators will take another 90 days to review a request from SBC Communications Inc. that could set the stage for large phone companies to offer video programming without complying with traditional cable regulations. SB WASHINGTON...
SBC gives a big 'Maybe' to deed fiber.(SBC Communications Inc says it will test Microsoft TV's IPTV solution.)
SBC Communications Inc. said it will start testing an Internet-protocol based fiber delivery of digital-TV services that could presage a further rollout of the technology, pending regulatory changes. At the SuperComm show in Chicago, SBC said SBC Communications...
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