Southwestern Bell Corporation

AT&T Inc.

AT&T's corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas
Formerly called	Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (1882–1983) Southwestern Bell Corporation (1983–1995) SBC Communications (1995–2005)
Type	Public
Traded as	: T S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Telecommunications Mass media Technology
Founded	1882; 135 years ago (1882) (As part of the Bell System) January 1, 1984; 33 years ago (1984-01-01) (Preceding the Break-Up)
Founder	Bell Telephone Company
Headquarters	Dallas, Texas, United States
Area served	North America and South America
Key people	Randall Stephenson (Chairman, CEO and President)
Products	Satellite television Fixed line telephone Mobile phone Broadband Digital television Home security IPTV OTT Services Network security
Brands	AT&T Cricket Digital Life DirecTV GoPhone NOW QuickPlay U-verse Unefón
Revenue	US$163.8 billion (2016)
Operating income	US$24.347 billion (2016)
Net income	US$13.33 billion (2016)
Total assets	US$403.82 billion (2016)
Total equity	US$124.11 billion (2016)
Number of employees	273,000
Divisions	AT&T Business Solutions AT&T Consumer Mobility AT&T Entertainment Group AT&T International
Subsidiaries	AT&T Corporation AT&T Digital Life AT&T Mexico AT&T Mobility AT&T U-verse AT&T Labs BellSouth Cricket Wireless DirecTV Otter Media (50%) Quickplay Media Southwestern Bell Vyatta
Website	www.att.com

AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate, headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas. AT&T is the world's largest telecommunications company. AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone services and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services through DirecTV; combined with AT&T's legacy U-verse service, this also makes AT&T the largest pay television operator. AT&T is the second-largest company in Texas, behind ExxonMobil. As of February 2017^[update], AT&T is the 12th largest company in the world (non-oil and overall) as measured by a composite of revenues, profits, assets and market valuation. AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue. As of 2017^[update], it is also the 18th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with 134 million mobile customers. AT&T was ranked at #4 on the 2017 rankings of the world's most valuable brands published by Brand Finance.

AT&T Inc. began its existence as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (subsidiary of Bell Telephone Company, later AT&T Corporation) created in 1882. The divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (founded 1885, later AT&T Corporation) following the 1982 United States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit. Southwestern Bell Corporation changed its name to SBC Communications Inc. in 1995. In 2005, SBC purchased former parent AT&T Corporation and took on its branding, with the merged entity naming itself AT&T Inc. and using the iconic AT&T Corp. logo and stock-trading symbol.