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Southwestern Bell Corporation

AT&T Inc.
Formerly called
  • Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (1882–1983)
  • Southwestern Bell Corporation (1983–1995)
  • SBC Communications (1995–2005)
Public
Traded as
Industry
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
Products
Brands
  • AT&T
  • Cricket
  • Digital Life
  • DirecTV
  • GoPhone
  • NOW
  • QuickPlay
  • U-verse
  • Unefón
Revenue IncreaseUS$163.8 billion (2016)
SteadyUS$24.347 billion (2016)
SteadyUS$13.33 billion (2016)
Total assets IncreaseUS$403.82 billion (2016)
Total equity IncreaseUS$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
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, 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, 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.


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