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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$43.8B
- Private
- 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, other providers spar on phone rules.(News)(SBC Communications Inc.)
- 2005-10-03
Byline: Amy Lane The next era of Michigan telecommunications regulation is heading down two legislative tracks, with SBC Communications Inc. and its competitors squaring off. SBC says a bill passed by a Senate committee last week and one up for ...
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...
Divergence rises as new buzzword: cable advances on new means to distribute video service.
- 2005-08-30
As the millennium dawned, the buzz was all about convergence. Companies merged and products were packaged into bundles, offering consumers more products that operators hoped they would buy from a single provider. But as telecom experts look o ...
Comcast, SBC set for battle; Cable giant rolling out phone service; SBC prepares counterattack.(Comcast Corp)(SBC Communications Inc)
- 2005-08-22
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON Let the phone wars begin. Over the next nine months, Illinois should see intense local telephone competition as Comcast Corp. introduces digital voice service to the region. The long-awaited battle pits Comcast, Chicago Byline: JULIE...
Let competition bloom.(Opinion)(SBC Communications Inc. loses market share in conventional land-line phone business )(Brief Article)
- 2005-06-13
Competition lowers prices. If you had any doubt, check your phone bill against a bill, say, from 2001. Now compare that with your cable bill. SBC Communications Inc. has lost market share in conventional land-line phone business since the Michig Competition...
Death of bill in Texas boosts TW, EchoStar.(EchoStar Communications Corp., Time Warner Inc.)(Brief Article)
- 2005-06-06
Time Warner Cable and EchoStar Communications are the likely beneficiaries of the death of a Texas bill that would have made it easier for telephone companies to get into the video business. Telcos SBC Communications and Verizon had lobbied Te ...
New telcom law should nurture new technologies.(Opinion)
- 2005-05-09
SBC Communications Inc. is pressing for an overhaul of state telecommunications regulation, arguing that technological advances make the current regulatory framework obsolete. The company says regulation of its rates, based on its control of more SBC Communications Inc. is pressing for an...
Franchise war in Texas.(IN THE STATES)
- 2005-05-02
Texas cable operators have cranked up the lobbying machine to fight off a bill video providers claim is nothing more than state-sanctioned redlining for Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc. As part of the state's telecommuni Texas cable...
SBC to state: Kill rate regs; Seeks to scrap phone price controls; sweetens offer with 3-year freeze.(News)(SBC Communications Inc., regulations)
- 2005-03-21
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON SBC Communications Inc. is pushing Springfield lawmakers to approve sweeping deregulation that would remove all price controls on local telephone service in Illinois. A bill introduced by Sen. James Clayborne Jr., D-East S Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON ...
Getting the service you deserve.(SBC Communications Inc. cut off one person's DSL service)(Column)
- 2005-02-14
When you receive terrible service from a supplier you rely on, what can you do to save time and get things working again? Jules, a successful investor and entrepreneur emailed me this: "Subject: Stan: SBC mistakenly cut off my DSL service. I ...
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