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Global Headquarters
San Antonio, Texas
Employees Worldwide
302,000
Industry Ranking
If ranked at merger close among the 2005 Fortune 500, the combined company would place ninth on the full U.S. list and 18th on the full global list.
Ticker Symbol
NYSE: T
AT&T Inc. common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. A Fortune 500 company, AT&T is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Leadership
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., chairman and chief executive officer
2006 Pro Forma Revenue AT&T Inc.
More than $117 billion
Corporate History
The birth of the new AT&T is, in large measure, the culmination of the evolution of communications in the United States. AT&T's roots stretch back to 1876, with Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone and the founding of the company that became AT&T. As the parent company of the Bell System, AT&T provided what was by all accounts the best telephone service in the world.
The Bell System was divested in 1984 by an agreement between the former AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice, in which AT&T agreed to divest itself of its local telephone operations but retain its long distance, R&D and manufacturing arms. Out of the divestiture was born SBC Communications Inc. (formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corp.) and BellSouth Corporation.
In the face of dramatic changes to the competitive landscape triggered by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, SBC Communications Inc. embarked upon a series of acquisitions to establish itself as a global communications provider: Pacific Telesis Group (1997), Southern New England Telecommunications (1998) and Ameritech Corporation (1999).
In 2005, SBC Communications Inc. acquired AT&T Corp. and created the new AT&T, poised to lead the industry in one of the most significant shifts in communications technology since the invention of the telephone nearly 130 years earlier.
With the merger of AT&T and BellSouth, along with consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and YELLOWPAGES.COM, the new AT&T will have greater financial, technical, research and development as well as network and marketing resources to better serve consumers and business customers of all sizes. The merger will accelerate the introduction of new and improved product and service sets for those customers.
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Meaningful Innovation
AT&T Labs has a long history of innovation, with thousands of patents issued or pending worldwide, and is a successor to a heritage that produced seven Nobel Prizes.
BellSouth was the first major communications provider to commercially launch wireless broadband using pre-WiMAX technology and a leader in fiber deployment with fiber-to-the-curb facilities to more than 1.3 million homes.
Cingular is a leader in third-generation wireless technology, launching the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA technology. It launched the world's first commercial deployment of wireless services using EDGE, a third-generation high speed mobile data and Internet access technology.
Researchers and engineers at AT&T Labs have developed some of the world's major technological inventions, including the transistor, the solar cell, the cell phone and the communications satellite. These groundbreaking technologies have enabled today's computers and electronic devices, wireless phones and VoIP.
AT&T Labs has been an industry leader in the development of DSL and other broadband Internet transport and delivery systems, wireless data networks, and new technologies and applications for networking and enterprise business needs. AT&T's predecessor companies pioneered new technologies and developed promising new products and services in a wide range of areas, including IP network management and VoIP.
AT&T Labs will continue this commitment to developing and delivering meaningful innovation across market groups, from residential to small business to enterprise.




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