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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)
- 2005-10-24
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...
FCC to tackle franchising: agency to address issue at upcoming meeting.(Federal Communications Commission, SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. competition for video on demand service)
- 2005-10-24
WASHINGTON -- Cable's political war with local phone giants, so far played out at the state and local levels, could be moving to higher ground: the Federal Communications Commission. According to two high-ranking FCC officials, commission chai WASHINGTON --...
SBC expects a statewide franchise soon.(SBC Communications Inc. may get approval for its U-verse TV Internet-protocol video service)
- 2005-10-17
Texas could grant SBC Communications Inc. statewide authority to operate its "U-verse TV" Internet-protocol video service by early next month, now that it has filed for a franchise. The telephone company was the most vociferous backe Texas could grant...
SBC Communications Announces New Contract with the College of DuPage; Optical Network Services Support Voice, Data and Video Communications for Nation's Largest Single Campus Community College
- 2005-09-27
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new contract to provide voice and data services to the College of DuPage (C.O.D.), located just west of Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Ill. The College of DuPage enrolls more than 35,000 students each term with 46 pre-baccalaureate programs and...
Connecticut taking a closer look: Regulators seek info on SBC, Verizon plans for video services.(SBC Communications Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Connecticut. Department of Public Utility Control)
- 2005-09-05
In what could be a groundbreaking move, utility regulators in Connecticut are attempting to determine if they have the authority to regulate SBC Communications Inc.'s planned Internet-delivered video service. "No one else is doing this i In what...
Telcos' persistence overcomes resistance: the bells again vie for video--and this time, they mean business.
- 2005-08-30
This time the telcos mean it. Years ago, phone company leaders promised to invade cable markets with the latest in pay-video technology. Some did, rolling out hybrid fiber coaxial and wireless networks here and there. But those efforts were tentative at best and ultimately collapsed. ...
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 ...
SBC Communications Statement Regarding Texas House and Senate Passing Telecom and Video Legislation
- 2005-08-10
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas House today voted 144-1 to approve legislation that reforms the state's telecommunications laws and establishes rules that encourage new competitors to enter the TV market. The Texas Senate last night also approved the bill. The measure now goes to the governor. The following statement can...
Are Policy-Makers Passing The Video Franchise Buck?
- 2005-06-13
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 takes a hybrid path toward video: Telco's approach to account for multiple formats.(Broadband Week: Advanced Technologies for Video, Voice and Data Services)
- 2005-06-06
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 ...
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