1. AT&T
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AT&T Inc.
Public (NYSE: T)
Type
1983[1]
Founded
Dallas, Texas, USA
Headquarters
Worldwide
Area served
Randall L. Stephenson (Chairman), (CEO) &
Key people
(President)
Telecommunications
Industry
Wireless
Telephone
Products
Internet
Television
USD $165.19 Billion (2008)
Market cap

2. ▲ USD 119.3 Billion (2008)[2]
Revenue
Operating
▲ USD 18.165 Billion (2008)[2]
income
▲ USD $10.463 Billion (2008)[2]
Net income
▲ USD $284.528 Billion (2008)
Total assets
▲ USD $112.518 Billion (2008)
Total equity
303,530 (2008)
Employees
http://www.att.com/
Website
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is the largest US provider of both local and long distance telephone
services, and DSL Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the
United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total
customers.[3] AT&T, Inc. was formed in 2005, when quot;Baby Bellquot; SBC Communications Inc.
purchased former quot;Ma Bellquot; AT&T Corporation The newly merged company took on the iconic
AT&T moniker and T stock-trading symbol (for quot;telephonequot;).
The current AT&T includes eleven of the original Bell Operating Companies, and the original
long distance division.[4] While it reconstitutes much of the former Bell System, AT&T Inc.
lacks the vertical integration of the historic AT&T Corp., which prompted United States v.
AT&T, the antitrust suit that led to the breakup in 1984.[citation needed]
The company was honored at the 2008 Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for
development of coaxial cable technology as well as for staying true to its promise of quot;connecting
people.quot;
Contents
1 History
o 1.1 Divestiture era and expansion
o 1.2 AT&T Corporation acquisition
o 1.3 BellSouth acquisition
o 1.4 2007-2008 restructuring

3.  1.4.1 Transition to new media
 1.4.2 Payphone removal
 1.4.3 Corporate headquarters move
 1.4.4 Job cuts
 1.4.5 Wayport acquisition
o 1.5 Bell Operating Companies
 1.5.1 Former operating companies
2 Corporate structure
3 Corporate governance
4 Contributions to political campaigns
5 Censorship controversy
6 Privacy controversy
7 Intellectual property filtering
8 Places/events/partners with the AT&T name
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
o 11.1 Corporate information
o 11.2 Articles
[edit] History
[edit] Divestiture era and expansion
Southwestern Bell Corporation logo, 1984–1995
See also: Bell System divestiture and American Telephone & Telegraph
The current AT&T Inc., was formed in 1983 as Southwestern Bell Corporation; it was one of
the seven regional Bell operating companies (also known as quot;Baby Bellsquot; or quot;RBOCsquot;) that
were formed by AT&T Corporation in 1983 and spun off from on the first day of 1984 as part of
the Bell System divestiture. Upon divestiture, AT&T Corporation stock also split and spun off
new stocks for each Baby Bell; Southwestern Bell Corporation traded on the New York Stock
Exchange with the ticker symbol SBC. This newly-created SBC originally owned only one
telephone company: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, founded in 1882.[citation needed]

4. SBC corporate logo, 1995–1997; 2001–2005
In 1993, Southwestern Bell Corporation moved its headquarters to San Antonio, Texas, and,
during its annual meeting of stockholders in 1995, the company announced that its name would
be changed to SBC Communications, Inc. The name change was an effort to reinforce the
company's national and global reach and the company stated not only that quot;SBCquot; was not an
acronym for Southwestern Bell Corporation but also that it did not stand for anything at all.
SBC corporate logo, 1997–2001
SBC then proceeded (as permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996[citation needed]) to
acquire fellow Baby Bell Pacific Telesis, the regional Bell operating company serving Nevada
and California, in 1997, and the then-independent Bell System franchise Southern New England
Telephone (SNET).
SBC then announced plans to acquire Ameritech, the regional Bell operating company serving
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, and told the FCC that it would allow
competitors access to local markets where it had had a monopoly if the FCC would allow them
to acquire Ameritech. The FCC agreed and, in May 1998, SBC and Ameritech announced the
merger would move forward. After making several organizational changes (such as the sale of
Ameritech Wireless to GTE) to satisfy state and federal regulators, the two merged on October 8,
1999. The FCC later fined SBC Communications $6 million for failure to comply with
agreements made in order to secure approval of the merger.
On November 1, 1999, SBC became a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
In 2002, SBC ended marketing its operating companies under different names, and simply opted
to give its companies different doing business as names based on the state (a practice already in
use by Ameritech since 1993), and it gave the holding companies it had purchased d/b/a names
based on their general region.
[edit] AT&T Corporation acquisition

5. SBC-AT&T legacy transition logo, used 2005–2006
On January 31, 2005, SBC announced that it would purchase AT&T Corp. for more than $16
billion. The announcement came almost 8 years after SBC and AT&T called off their first
merger talks and nearly a year after initial merger talks between AT&T Corp. and BellSouth fell
apart. AT&T stockholders, meeting in Denver, approved the merger on June 30, 2005. The U.S.
Department of Justice cleared the merger on October 27, 2005, and the Federal Communications
Commission approved it on October 31, 2005.
The merger was finalized on November 18, 2005.[5] Upon the completion of the merger, SBC
Communications adopted the AT&T branding, and changed its corporate name to AT&T Inc. to
differentiate the company from the former AT&T Corporation. On December 1, 2005, the
merged company's New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol changed from quot;SBCquot; to the
traditional quot;Tquot; used by AT&T.
The new AT&T updated the former AT&T's graphic logo; however the existing AT&T sound
trademark (voiced by Pat Fleet) continues to be used.
[edit] BellSouth acquisition
On Friday December 29, 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the
new AT&T's acquisition of regional Bell operating company BellSouth, valued at approximately
$86 billion (or 1.325 shares of AT&T for each share of BellSouth at the close of trading
December 29, 2006).[6] The new combined company retained the name AT&T.[7] The deal
consolidated ownership of both Cingular Wireless and Yellowpages.com, once joint ventures
between BellSouth and AT&T. All services, including wireless, became offered under the AT&T
name.[8]
[edit] 2007-2008 restructuring
[edit] Transition to new media

6. The AT&T tower in downtown Los Angeles, CA.
In June 2007, AT&T's new chairman and CEO, Randall Stephenson, discussed how wireless
services are the core of quot;The New AT&Tquot;.[9] With declining sales of traditional home phone
lines, AT&T plans to roll out various new media such as VideoShare, U-verse, and to extend its
reach in high speed Internet into rural areas across the country. He also has stated that AT&T
will not make any more acquisitions for the time being. AT&T announced on June 29, 2007,
however, that it was acquiring Dobson Communications. It was then reported on October 2, 2007
that AT&T would purchase Interwise[clarification needed] for $121 million, which it completed on
November 2, 2007. On October 9, 2007, AT&T purchased 12 MHz of spectrum in the prime
700 MHz spectrum band from privately-held Aloha Partners for nearly $2.5 billion; the deal was
approved by the FCC on February 4, 2008. On December 4, 2007 AT&T announced plans to
acquire Edge Wireless, a regional GSM carrier in the Pacific Northwest.[10] The Edge Wireless
acquisition was completed in April 2008,[11]
[edit] Payphone removal
Empty AT&T payphone booths in Kansas City, KS.
On December 3, 2007, AT&T announced it would remove all of its 65,000 remaining payphones
by the end of 2008.[12] BellSouth already had removed its payphones years before being acquired
by AT&T, and Qwest sold its pay telephone services in 2004. Verizon Communications will be
the only Baby Bell that will continue to operate pay telephones following the removal of AT&T
pay telephones,[13] and currently has no interest in leaving the business.[14]
[edit] Corporate headquarters move
On June 27, 2008, AT&T announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from San
Antonio to Dallas to gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the world, and
to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human resources needed as it continues
to grow, domestically and internationally.

7. It is expected to involve about 700 of the company's nearly 6,000 San Antonio-based employees.
AT&T Inc. previously relocated its corporate headquarters to San Antonio from St. Louis in
1992, when it was then named Southwestern Bell Corporation. The company's Telecom
Operations group, which serves residential and regional business customers in 22 U.S. states,
will remain in San Antonio.
Atlanta will continue to be the headquarters for AT&T Mobility. New Jersey will continue to be
the headquarters for the company's Global Business Services group and AT&T Labs. St. Louis
will continue as home to the company's Directory operations, AT&T Advertising &
Publishing.[15]
[edit] Job cuts
On December 4, 2008, AT&T announced they would be cutting 12,000 jobs due to quot;economic
pressures, a changing business mix and a more streamlined organizational structurequot;.[16]
[edit] Wayport acquisition
On December 12, 2008, AT&T acquired Wayport, Inc., a major provider of Internet hotspots in
the United States. With the acquisition, AT&T's public Wi-Fi deployment climbed to 20,000
hotspots in the United States, the most of any U.S. provider.[17]
[edit] Bell Operating Companies
AT&T payphone signage.
Of the twenty-two Bell Operating Companies which AT&T owned prior to the 1984 agreement
to divest, eleven (BellSouth Telecommunications combines two former BOCs) have become a
part of the new AT&T Inc. with the completion of their acquisition of BellSouth Corporation on
December 29, 2006:[18]

8. BellSouth Telecommunications (formerly known as Southern Bell and South Central
Bell)
Illinois Bell
Indiana Bell
Michigan Bell
Nevada Bell (formerly known as Bell Telephone Company of Nevada)
Ohio Bell
Pacific Bell (formerly Pacific Telephone & Telegraph)
Southwestern Bell
Wisconsin Bell (formerly Wisconsin Telephone)
AT&T owns the following operating companies not considered a Bell Operating Company:
Southern New England Telephone — Now wholly owned; the original AT&T held
16.8% interest prior to 1984.
[edit] Former operating companies
The following companies have gone to defunct status under SBC/AT&T ownership:
Southwestern Bell Texas - a separate operating company created by SBC and merged
back into SWBT on December 30, 2001.
Woodbury Telephone - merged into Southern New England Telephone on June 1, 2007.
[edit] Corporate structure
AT&T office with new logo and orange highlight from the former Cingular.
AT&T Inc. has retained the holding companies it has acquired over the years resulting in the
following corporate structure:
AT&T Inc., publicly-traded holding company
o Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T
Arkansas/Kansas/Missouri/Oklahoma/Southwest/Texas
o Pacific Telesis Group, Inc. d/b/a AT&T West, acquired in 1997

9.  Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California
 Nevada Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Nevada
o Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation d/b/a AT&T East,
acquired in 1998
 Southern New England Telephone Company (includes former Woodbury
Telephone)
o AT&T Teleholdings, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Midwest, formerly Ameritech, acquired in
1999
 Illinois Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Illinois
 Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Indiana
 Michigan Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Michigan
 The Ohio Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Ohio
 Wisconsin Bell, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Wisconsin
o AT&T Corporation, acquired 2005
 AT&T Communications, Inc.
o BellSouth Corporation d/b/a AT&T South, acquired 2006
 BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. d/b/a AT&T
Alabama/Florida/Georgia/Kentucky/Louisiana/Mississippi/North
Carolina/South Carolina/Southeast/Tennessee
[edit] Corporate governance
Stephenson at the 2008 World Economic Forum.
AT&T's current board of directors:
Randall L. Stephenson — Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
James A. Henderson
Gilbert F. Amelio
William F. Aldinger III
August A. Busch III
Martin K. Eby, Jr.
Charles F. Knight
Jon C. Madonna
Lynn M. Martin
Ronald M. Crump
John B. McCoy
Mary S. Metz

10. Toni Rembe
S. Donley Ritchey
Joyce M. Roche
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Patricia P. Upton
[edit] Contributions to political campaigns
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the United States' second largest
donor to political campaigns, having contributed more than US$ 36 million since 1990, 56% and
44% of which went to Republican and Democratic recipients, respectively. A key political issue
for AT&T is the question of which businesses win the right to profit by providing broadband
internet access in the United States.[19]
In 2005, AT&T was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second
inauguration of President George W. Bush.[20] [21] [22]
[edit] Censorship controversy
In August 2007, the band Pearl Jam performed in Chicago at Lollapalooza which was being web-
broadcast by AT&T. The band, while playing the song quot;Daughterquot;, started playing a version of
Pink Floyd's quot;Another Brick in the Wallquot; but with altered lyrics critical of president George
Bush. These lyrics included quot;George Bush, leave this world alone!quot; and, quot;George Bush, find
yourself another home!quot;. Listeners to AT&T's web broadcast heard only the first line because the
rest was censored[23] although, AT&T spokesman Michael Coe said that the silencing was quot;a
mistake.quot;[24]
In September 2007, AT&T changed[25] their legal policy to state that quot;AT&T may immediately
terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP
address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice for conduct
that AT&T believesquot;...quot;(c) tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents,
affiliates and subsidiaries.quot;[26] By October 10, 2007 AT&T had altered the terms and conditions
for its Internet service to explicitly support freedom of expression by its subscribers, after an
outcry claiming the company had given itself the right to censor its subscribers' transmissions.[27]
Section 5.1 of AT&T's new terms of service now reads quot;AT&T respects freedom of expression
and believes it is a foundation of our free society to express differing points of view. AT&T will
not terminate, disconnect or suspend service because of the views you or we express on public
policy matters, political issues or political campaigns.quot;[28]
[edit] Privacy controversy
Further information: NSA call database, Mark Klein, NSA warrantless surveillance
controversy, Hepting v. AT&T

11. In 2006, the Electronic Frontier Foundation lodged a class action lawsuit, Hepting v. AT&T,
which alleged that AT&T had allowed agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor
phone and Internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants. If true, this would
violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the First and Fourth Amendments
of the U.S. Constitution. AT&T has yet to confirm or deny that monitoring by the NSA is
occurring. In April 2006, a retired former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, lodged an affidavit
supporting this allegation.[29][30] The Department of Justice has stated they will intervene in this
lawsuit by means of State Secrets Privilege.[31]
In May 2006, USA Today reported that all international and domestic calling records had been
handed over to the National Security Agency by AT&T, Verizon, SBC, and BellSouth for the
purpose of creating a massive calling database.[32] The portions of the new AT&T that had been
part of SBC Communications before November 18, 2005 were not mentioned.
On June 21, 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that AT&T had rewritten rules on their
privacy policy. The policy, which took effect June 23, 2006, says that quot;AT&T — not customers
— owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests,
safeguard others, or respond to legal process.' quot;[33]
On August 22, 2007, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell confirmed that AT&T was
one of the telecommunications companies that assisted with the government's warrantless wire-
tapping program on calls between foreign and domestic sources.[34]
On November 8, 2007, Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, told Keith Olbermann of
MSNBC that all Internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the
company's San Francisco office — to which only employees with National Security Agency
clearance had access.[35]
[edit] Intellectual property filtering
In January 2008, the company reported plans to begin filtering all Internet traffic which passes
through its network for intellectual property violations.[36]
Commentators in the media have speculated that if this plan is implemented, it would lead to a
mass exodus of subscribers leaving AT&T,[37] although this is misleading as internet traffic may
go through the company's network anyway.[36] Internet freedom proponents used these
developments as justification for government-mandated network neutrality.
[edit] Places/events/partners with the AT&T name

12. One of AT&T's towers in San Antonio, Texas
AT&T Bricktown Ballpark — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (formerly Southwestern Bell
Bricktown Ballpark, SBC Bricktown Ballpark)
AT&T Building - Currently the tallest skyscraper in Nashville, Tennessee, (Formerly
BellSouth Building and South Central Bell Building), nicknamed the Batman Building
AT&T Center — San Antonio, Texas (formerly SBC Center)
AT&T Champions Classic — Valencia, California
AT&T Classic — Atlanta, Georgia (formerly BellSouth Classic)
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic (formerly Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, Southwestern Bell
Cotton Bowl Classic, SBC Cotton Bowl Classic) — played in Dallas, Texas, at the Cotton
Bowl stadium.
AT&T Field — Chattanooga, Tennessee (formerly BellSouth Park)
AT&T Midtown Center — Atlanta, Georgia
AT&T National — Washington, D.C.
AT&T Plaza — Dallas, Texas (the new plaza in front of the American Airlines Center at
Victory Plaza)
AT&T Park — San Francisco, California (formerly Pacific Bell Park, SBC Park)
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
AT&T Red River Rivalry — Dallas, Texas (formerly Red River Shootout, SBC Red River
Rivalry)
Jones AT&T Stadium — Lubbock, Texas (formerly Clifford B. and Audrey Jones
Stadium, Jones SBC Stadium)
Sponsorship of the #31 car driven by Jeff Burton — Richard Childress Racing — Sprint
Cup
Associate sponsorship of the #29 car driven by Jeff Burton and Scott Wimmer - Richard
Childress Racing - Nationwide Series
AT&T 250 — NASCAR Nationwide Series race — Milwaukee Mile
AT&T WilliamsF1 Team — based in Grove, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
[edit] See also

13. AT&T Mobility
AT&T Connect
Bell System
Bell System Divestiture
Regional Bell Operating Company
Telecommunication
Lists of public utilities
[edit] References
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28. ^ AT&T Legal Policy
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[edit] External links

15. [edit] Corporate information
AT&T corporate website
AT&T History and science resources at The Franklin Institute's Case Files online exhibit
Brand evolution of AT&T companies
Press Release announcing FCC Approval of SBC-Ameritech merger (1999-10-06)
Bell System Memorial
ATT's most recent conference call transcripts
[edit] Articles
Unnatural Monopoly: Critical Moments in the Development of the Bell System Monopoly
by Adam D. Thierer
quot;AT&T buys IBM's Global Networkquot;, BBC News, December 8, 1998
quot;SBC closes AT&T acquisitionquot;, CNet News, November 18, 2005
quot;AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billionquot;, CNet News, March 5, 2006
AT&T Whistleblower to Urge Senate to Reject Blanket Immunity for Telecoms
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Spinoffs of American Telephone & Telegraph
1956: Bell Canada • Northern Electric
1984 divestiture: Ameritech • Bell Atlantic • Bell Communications Research • BellSouth •
NYNEX • Pacific Telesis • Southwestern Bell • U S WEST
1996: Lucent Technologies • NCR
1997: AT&T Submarine System, sold to Tyco International
2001: AT&T Broadband • AT&T Wireless
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MediaOne Group • Northern New England Spinco • QLT Consumer Lease Services • R. H.
Donnelley Publishing & Advertising of Illinois • Telcordia Technologies • Teradata
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AT&T Inc.
Randall L.
Chairman, CEO and President
Stephenson
Gilbert F. Amelio · August A. Busch III · Martin K.
Corporate directors Eby, Jr. · James A. Henderson · Charles F. Knight ·
Lynn M. Martin · John B. McCoy · Mary S. Metz ·
Toni Rembe · S. Donley Ritchey · Joyce M. Roche ·
Laura D. Tyson · Patricia P. Upton
AT&T Corporation · Ameritech · BellSouth · Pacific
Holding companies
Telesis · Southern New England Telecommunications
BellSouth Telecommunications · Illinois Bell · Indiana
Bell · Michigan Bell · Nevada Bell · Ohio Bell ·
Bell Operating Companies
Pacific Bell · Southwestern Bell · Wisconsin Bell
Southern New England Telephone
Other operating companies
SBC Telecom
Competitive local exchange carrier
AT&T Alascom · AT&T Communications · BellSouth
Long distance services
Long Distance · SBC Long Distance · SNET America
Ameritech Mobile Communications · AT&T
AT&T Mobility

17. Wireless · BellSouth Mobility · BellSouth Mobility
DCS · Dobson Communications · Houston Cellular ·
Pacific Bell Wireless · Pacific Bell Wireless
Northwest · SBC Wireless · SNET Mobility ·
Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems · Southwestern
Bell Wireless
AT&T CallVantage · U-
IP services (VoIP, IPTV)
verse
Ameritech Interactive
Media Services · Pacific
Bell Internet Services ·
AT&T Internet Services
Prodigy · SNET Diversified
Group · Southwestern Bell
Internet Services
Internet services
AT&T Business Internet ·
AT&T WorldNet ·
Other ISPs BellSouth FastAccess
DSL · SBC Advanced
Solutions
AnyWho.com ·
Directories
Yellowpages.com
Ameritech Publishing · BellSouth Advertising &
Publishing · Pacific Bell Directory · SNET
AT&T Advertising & Publishing
Information Services · Southwestern Bell Yellow
Pages
Sterling Commerce
Logistics software development
AT&T Intellectual Property · AT&T Knowledge
Intellectual property
Ventures
AT&T Labs
Research and development
Annual Revenue: US$119.3 billion (▲ FY 2008) · Employees: 303,530 · Stock Symbol:
NYSE: T · Website: att.com
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