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AT&T Inc.
Type	Public company
Exchange listing	NYSE: T
Base	1983
Former names	Southwestern Bell Corporation (1983–1995) SBC Communications, Inc. (1995–2005)
Location	USA USA: Dallas, Texas
Key figures	Randall Stevenson (Chairman and CEO)
Industry	Telecommunications Mass media
Products	Satellite television Local telephone service Cell Phones Broadband Internet Access Digital television Home security systems
Equity	▲ $124.11 billion (2016)
Turnover	▲ $163.8 billion (2016)
Operating profit	▬ $24.347 billion (2016)
Net profit	▬ $13.33 billion (2016)
Assets	▲ $403.82 billion (2016)
Capitalization	$262 billion (02/24/2017)
Number of employees	273 thousand (2016)
Divisions	AT&T Business Solutions AT&T Consumer Mobility AT&T Entertainment & Internet Services AT&T International
Affiliated companies	AT&T Corporation AT&T Teleholdings AT&T Digital Life AT&T Mexico AT&T Mobility AT&T U-verse BellSouth Cricket Wireless DirecTV Otter Media (50%) Quickplay Media Southwestern Bell YP Holdings (47%) WarnerMedia
Auditor	Ernst & Young LLP
Website	att.com
Media files on Wikimedia Commons

Story

The beginning of the history of AT&T is inextricably linked with the name of Alexander Bell; divisions of the company still bear his name. In 1876, Bell registered a patent for his invention - the telephone. A year later, he and his financiers, Gardiner Greene Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, founded the Bell Telephone Company. The first telephone line was laid in 1878 in New Haven (Connecticut). Over the next three years, telephone lines appeared in most major US cities. In 1882, the company purchased the Western Electric Company from Western Union, which became a manufacturing base. This is how the Bell System began to form, a monopoly on the market telephone services USA.

In 1885, a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T Company) was registered in New York, whose task was to lay long-distance telephone lines. In 1892, telephone communication was established between New York and Chicago, and in 1915 the West Coast was reached - the city of San Francisco. In 1899, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company formally purchased the Bell Telephone Company and became the parent company because the laws of New York State were more suitable than those of Massachusetts, where the original company was incorporated.

In 1894, Bell's patent expired, and over six thousand independent telephone companies emerged in the United States between 1894 and 1904, and the number of subscribers grew from 285,000 to 3,317,000. Since 1907, AT&T has set out to purchase competing telephone companies in order to incorporate them into its network and unify telephone standards. In 1913, the so-called Kingsbury Commitment was reached between AT&T and the Anti-Monopoly Committee, which assigned AT&T the status of a natural monopoly, but it had to coordinate the purchase of competitors and tariffs with the Anti-Monopoly Committee, as well as provide its networks for use by other operators.

In 1913, the company purchased Lee de Forest's patents for vacuum tubes for $50,000, in particular the patent for the audion (the first triode), which allowed amplification of telephone signals. In 1925, AT&T founded the Bell Telephone Laboratories (Bell Labs), which turned out to be very productive: the transistor and photocell were invented here, radio astronomy was founded, and operating system Unix and the C programming language.

In 1927, AT&T opened transatlantic telephone service to London using two-way radio, initially charging $75 for three minutes. Communication later spread to other countries both through London and directly via radio. Radiotelephone communication with Hawaii was established in 1931, with Tokyo in 1934. However, radiotelephone communications were far from perfect, so in 1956 the transatlantic cable, TAT-1, was laid. The transpacific cable was laid in 1964. At the same time, another communication system was developing - radio relay communication. This method of communication by AT&T was first used in 1948 between the cities of New York and Boston, and for the next three decades it was used on several more long-distance sections of the network. In 1962, the first commercial communications satellite, Telstar, was launched with participation from AT&T.

At the same time, there were complaints about the company's work from the antimonopoly committee and other regulatory bodies, in particular related to the fact that AT&T obliged subscribers to use only phones manufactured by Western Electric, and they were not sold, but rented, and the rent was a significant portion of the company's income. In 1968, the Federal Communications Commission ordered AT&T to allow devices from other manufacturers to connect to the network.

Company division

AT&T Corporation

The name AT&T remained only with the company providing long-distance communication services (AT&T Communications, later AT&T Corporation). Competition in this segment of the telecommunications market increased every year, AT&T's share decreased from 90% in 1984 to 50% in the mid-90s. At the same time, the number of calls also increased - if in 1984 the company processed an average of 37.5 million calls per day, then in 1989 there were already 105.9 million, and in 1999 - 270 million. An increasing percentage of these connections accounted for data exchange between modems, and not for voice transmission. In 1991, the company stopped telegraph service.

The company expanded through acquisitions, including internationally. The largest acquisitions of the 90s were the purchase of NCR Corporation in 1991 and the cellular operator McCaw Cellular in 1994. McCaw Cellular was renamed AT&T Wireless and remained the leader in US mobile communications until the late 1990s.

In 1995, AT&T Corporation split into three separate companies: Lucent Technologies (which included Bell Laboratories and Western Electric), NCR Corporation (which included Teradata), and a communications company that retained the AT&T name. AT&T Wireless was spun off as a separate company in 2001.

In 2005, AT&T Corporation merged with SBC Communications to form the largest telecommunications company in the United States.

Ameritech

Ameritech is one of seven regional telephone companies formed in 1984. She worked in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. In 1999, SBC Communications was acquired, now part of AT&T Inc.

Pacific Telesis

Pacific Telesis - formed from part of the AT&T network serving the west (Pacific) coast of the United States. Acquired by SBC Communications in 1997, now part of AT&T Inc.

BellSouth

BellSouth was formed in 1984 from two telephone companies that were part of AT&T - Southern Bell and South Central Bell. It provided telecommunications services in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina and Tennessee, as well as Australia and New Zealand. In 2006, it was acquired by AT&T Inc.

Southwestern Bell

Southwestern Bell (SBC Communications) is the main company that formed modern AT&T Inc.

Bell Atlantic and NYNEX

Two telephone companies serving the northeastern United States. Merged in 1996. After the acquisition of independent operator GTE, the combined company became known as Verizon Communications. The main competitor of modern AT&T Inc.

US West

It was formed from three companies that were part of AT&T: Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph (or Mountain Bell), Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell. Served the northwestern United States. In 2000, it was acquired by Qwest Communications, which in turn was acquired by CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the United States, in 2011.

After 2006

Thus, parts of AT&T at the end of 2006 were distributed among three US telecommunications companies: AT&T Inc, Verizon Communications and Qwest Communications. AT&T Inc collected four of the seven companies, gaining 66.1 million phone lines, 58.7 million mobile subscribers and 11.6 million high-speed Internet customers.

In July 2015, it acquired DirecTV for $48.5 billion.

On June 21, 2018, it acquired the Time Warner conglomerate for $85 billion, which owns Time Inc. , Warner Bros. Entertainment, Time Warner Cable, CNN, HBO, Turner Broadcasting System and The CW Television Network.

Control

Shareholders

Management

• Randall Stevenson ( Randall L. Stephenson) - chief executive officer (CEO)
• William Blaze Jr. ( William A. Blase, Jr.) - Senior Executive Director for Human Resources
• John Stevens ( John J. Stephens) - Senior Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
• David Hatley ( David S. Huntley) - Senior Executive Director and Director of Conciliation and Enforcement Procedures (CCO)
• Laurie Lee ( Lori Lee) is a senior executive and global chief marketing officer.
• David Makati II ( David R. McAtee II) - Senior Executive Director and Director of legal issues(CLO)
• Robert Queen Jr. ( Robert W. Quinn Jr.) - Senior Executive Director for External and Legislative Affairs.
• John Donovan ( John Donovan) - Chief Strategy Officer and Group President of AT&T Technology and Operations
• John Stankey ( John Stankey listen)) is the chief executive officer (CEO) of AT&T Entertainment Group and AT&T Services Inc.

Activity

Carries out activities in the following areas:

Mobile phone services are provided by a subsidiary of AT&T Mobility.

AT&T Incorporated is one of the approximately 500 companies and non-governmental organizations that make up US Global Leadership Coalition. Contributions from coalition members go to promote interests American companies in the international arena through diplomatic, investment and other means.

Key financial indicators, billion US dollars

Year	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Turnover	45,38	42,82	40,50	40,79	43,86	63,06	118,9	124,0	122,5	124,8	126,7	127,4	128,8	132,4	146,8	163,8
Net profit	7,008	5,653	8,505	5,887	4,768	7,356	11,95	12,87	12,12	19,09	3,944	7,264	18,25	6,224	13,69	13,33
Assets	96,42	95,17	102,0	110,3	145,6	270,6	275,6	265,2	268,3	268,5	270,3	272,3	277,8	292,8	402,7	403,8
Employees, thousand people	193,4	175,0	168,0	162,7	190,0	304,2	309,1	302,7	282,7	266,6	256,4	241,8	243,4	243,6	281,5	268,5

Products

One of the company's activities was the production of automatic telephone exchanges, including high-performance switches (switches) 4ESS and 5ESS, supplied to Russia and still operating in many cities.

Charity and sponsorship

Notes

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6. AT&T Completes Acquisition of DIRECTV (undefined) . Retrieved February 16, 2017.
7. Research Notes (undefined) . Leichtman Research Group. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
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Denis S. writes to us.

In anticipation of the release of the new iPhone, I would like to talk about a company that is directly related to by Apple and occupies not the last place in the distribution of its products in America. My short story, touching only on the main aspects of the corporation's development, will be about AT&T, the largest mobile communications provider in America.

AT&T in outline/Beginning

Bell Telephone Company

The company dates back to 1875, when its founder Alexander Graham Bell (a native of Edinburgh, Scotland) entered into an agreement with G. Hubbard and T. Sanderson, who agreed to finance his work to create a telephone. Bell himself was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was a professor, studied rhetoric, and it was he who instilled in Alec (as Bell was called in the family) a love for learning the language and ways of transmitting it through the telegraph. In 1876 and 1877, Bell received all the necessary patents for the so-called talking telegraph, after which Bell Telephone was formed. Within just a few years, telephone exchanges began to appear in most major cities in the United States. In 1882, the company acquired a controlling stake in the Western Electric Company, thanks to which it began to produce its own equipment not only for domestic market, but also for companies all over the world. From this moment on, the company becomes known as Bell Systems.

AT&T was incorporated on March 3, 1885, as a subsidiary of the American Bell Corporation, its purpose was to provide telephone service over long distances. At first, AT&T developed within the United States and for the United States, but in 1913 the company's developments made transcontinental communications possible.

Evolution of the company logo

But there is no joy without grief. In 1894, Bell's second patent expired and other companies gained access to it, as a result of which in 10 years the number of devices increased from 285,000 to 3,317,000, but due to large quantity Service providers have a new big problem - the impossibility of telephone connections between representatives of different companies, it is as if today we could not call from Megafon to Beeline, and from Beeline to MTS. This problem was solved only in 1913.

For most of history, AT&T and Bell Systems operated as a regulated monopoly, with the rationale being that telephone systems would operate most efficiently within a monopoly. In 1913, an agreement was concluded under which the US government accepted government regulation monopoly, if the company agrees to be "independent, intelligent, considerate, thorough and just", also under this agreement AT&T connected all non-competing and independent telephone companies to its network.

Antitrust lawsuit and separation

Changes in telecommunications have led to an antitrust lawsuit by the US government against AT&T. The process began in 1974 and ended in January 1982. On January 1, 1984, Bell Systems died and was replaced by AT&T and 7 other regional Bell operating companies. The consequences of this were that out of 149 billion, only 34 billion remained, out of more than a million employees, 370 thousand remained, and the logo also changed, which became the prototype of what we are used to seeing now - a globe with the company’s monogram.

As long as the company was a monopoly, it was naturally protected from attacks from competitors, but once that shield came down, AT&T was forced to undergo one of the most significant changes in its entire history. Other companies stepped on the heels, new technologies appeared, and pressure from outside. In 1984, the company made about 37 million calls per day, in 1989 the figure rose to 105 million, and ten years later AT&T began providing up to 270 million calls per day. All this happened thanks to the implementation of the movement into the international market, which is more than 200 countries, the acquisition of computer manufacturer NCR, a deal with McCaw Cellular, thanks to which the company became a leading force in the fast-growing wireless communications industry.

The New AT&T/New AT&T

On September 20, 1995, the company announces a restructuring and separation into three separate public companies: Lucent Technologies, NCR and AT&T. It was the largest voluntary business separation in US history.

Over the next four years, the company takes steps to modernize, investing $35 billion in Internet technology development, acquiring leading global data network provider IBM Global Network, merging with TCI and MediaOne, and becoming the largest cable company in the United States. In 2000, the volume of Internet traffic exceeded the volume of voice traffic for the first time.

In 2005, SBC and AT&T merged, in 2006 the same thing happened with BellSouth, all services provided by the companies are now offered under the single AT&T brand. Subsequently, there follows a whole series of transactions and acquisitions between AT&T and Centennial, Cellular One, WayPort, and an attempt to acquire T-Mobile.

• Third largest company in Texas;
• Fourteenth largest company in the world by market value;
• The ninth is not oil company;
• The twentieth largest mobile operator in the world;
• 100,700,000 clients;
• 252,000 employees;

(data presented for 2010-2012)

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T Corp.) was founded in 1885 and for a long time was a monopolist in the US long-distance and local communications market. AT&T is the second largest wireless service provider in the country (77 million users) and has more than 150 million total customers. The headquarters is located in Dallas (Texas), the staff exceeds 300 thousand people.

Assets

At the end of 2010, it served 95.5 million cellular users.

Performance indicators

2013

Net income attributable to shareholders, mobile operator AT&T Inc. in 2013 increased 2.5 times compared to 2012 and amounted to approximately $18.25 billion. In terms of one ordinary share, profit was $3.39 versus $1.25 in 2012. Total revenue for the year increased 1% to $128.75 billion.

2011

Capitalization as of March 2011 - $167.8 billion.

2010

Revenue – $124.3 billion, net profit – $20.18 billion.

2008

Turnover $284,528 billion, Operating profit- $18.16 billion, net profit - $10.46 billion. Number of employees - 303,530.

Story

2018

Launch of 5G network

Netgear Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot connects multiple devices via Wi-Fi to 5G broadband. The device has a built-in battery and the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 mobile processor with an integrated Snapdragon X50 modem.

For 5G Internet, AT&T offered a tariff plan that included 15 GB of traffic for $70. This is not cheap, considering that for this money you can buy completely unlimited tariffs for the LTE network.

In addition, as an AT&T representative told The Verge, the launched fifth-generation network in theory allows data transfer at speeds of up to 1.2 Gbps, but “actual speeds will be lower.

AT&T's 5G network will go public on December 21, 2018. It is planned to launch in early 2019 in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose.

Other US operators are also preparing for large-scale deployment of 5G networks. Thus, T-Mobile promised the availability of the technology in 30 cities by the end of 2018, and Verizon plans to offer a hotspot with 5G support in early 2019.

Cryptocurrency investor lost $24 million via smartphone and blamed AT&T for it

On August 15, 2018, a cryptocurrency investor from California filed a lawsuit against AT&T and demands $224 million from it. The entrepreneur accused the telecom operator of negligence, due to which he allegedly lost about $24 million. Read more.

Purchase of AppNexus for $1.6-2 billion

On June 25, 2018 AT&T announced the purchase of the advertising exchange AppNexus to expand its strategy in the field of television advertising. The cost of the transaction has not been officially announced. As TechCrunch writes, we are talking about an amount in the region of 1.6-2 billion dollars. Read more.

Deal failure with Huawei

The American mobile operator AT&T at the last moment canceled in January 2018 an agreement with Huawei to sell smartphones from the Chinese manufacturer through its networks in the United States. The reason AT&T refused the deal was a bill that would ban the use of technology and services by government agencies and departments Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE. Read more.

2011

In March 2011, AT&T announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase the operator T-Mobile USA, owned by the German concern Deutsche Telekom. The transaction amount, which has already received approval from the boards of directors of both parties, will amount to $25 billion in the form of Money and $14 billion in shares.

The T-Mobile USA subsidiary was acquired by Deutsche Telekom in 2001 for $35 billion (then called VoiceStream Wireless) in the hope that Deutsche Telekom would eventually be able to establish a strong position in the mobile communications market. However, years later, with billions of dollars of investment, the company still remained in the shadow of larger market players. According to unofficial information, in 2010 Deutsche Telekom also negotiated the merger of T-Mobile USA with Sprint Nextel.

The acquisition of T-Mobile USA, the operator's fourth-largest subscriber base, will allow AT&T to expand its geographic presence. With the help of T-Mobile's infrastructure, the company intends to offer fourth-generation LTE communication technology to 95% of the population, connecting 46.5 million subscribers to it above the original plan.

AT&T will abandon the T-Mobile USA brand and will provide services to existing subscribers of this operator under its own trademark. The T-Mobile brand will continue to be used in Europe. In addition, several thousand jobs could be cut as part of the deal. At the time of the transaction, AT&T's staff includes 267 thousand people, T-Mobile USA - about 38 thousand. Representatives of Deutsche Telekom will join the board of AT&T.

Through the acquisition, AT&T also plans to improve the quality of communications, throughput its networks, which has previously repeatedly become the target of criticism, in particular from iPhone users. According to some information, once the operator even had to limit sales of the device in San Francisco and New York in order to somehow limit the influx of mobile broadband subscribers.

As a result of the transaction, AT&T's subscriber base will grow to approximately 130 million subscribers, making the company the largest mobile operator by this parameter in the country. By comparison, Verizon Wireless served about 94 million subscribers at the time of the deal. Compared to Sprint Nextel (third place), AT&T's subscriber base will be about twice as large. This has already caused concern in Sprint, whose representatives stated that after the takeover, two companies would actually control the market (almost 80%).

The transaction, which is expected to close within 12 months, is subject to approval by all necessary regulatory authorities, including the US Communications Commission. In May 2010, its representatives already expressed concern about excessive consolidation in the telecommunications market.

2006

In 2006, AT&T acquired BellSouth. The acquisition cost AT&T $83 billion.

1876-2002

1876: Invention of the telephone by Alexander Bell

1877: Bell Telephone Company founded

1878: The first telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut; within three years, similar nodes appeared in all major cities, giving rise to the Bell System company

1885: American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) founded on March 3rd

1892: Long-distance telephone line opened between New York and Chicago

1899: As a result of a restructuring, AT&T acquires the assets of its parent company, American Bell Telephone Company, and becomes the owner of the Bell System

1913: Lawsuit with federal authorities settled; AT&T gains "officially sanctioned monopoly" status

1915: The first transcontinental telephone line opens in the United States; three minutes of talk between New York and San Francisco costs $20.70.

1925: Bell Telephone Laboratories founded

1927: Transatlantic telephone radio service goes into operation; the cost of three minutes of conversation is $75.

1934: Transpacific telephone radio service opened; three minutes of conversation between America and Japan costs $39.

1937: Clinton Davisson becomes the first AT&T employee to win the Nobel Prize.

1947: Invention of the transistor by Bill Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories

1956: Another trial between AT&T and the federal authorities is concluded; AT&T Retains National Telephone Carrier Status

1956: TAT-1, the first transatlantic cable telephone link, goes into operation

1958: AT&T introduces the first ever commercial modem

1962: The Telstar I communications satellite is launched, providing the first ever live television broadcast across the Atlantic.

1964: The TPC-1 submarine telephone cable was laid, connecting Japan and the Hawaiian Islands by wire.

1965: AT&T installed the world's first electronic telephone switch

1968: 911 service introduced

1971: Unix OS was developed at Bell Telephone Laboratories

1974: The US Department of Justice initiates another antitrust case against AT&T

1977: In Chicago, AT&T becomes the first communications company to use fiber optic cable in commercial communications systems.

1982: As part of a lawsuit settlement, AT&T agrees to split up the Bell System

1983: The first commercial cellular network in the United States was opened in Chicago

1984: Bell System ceases to exist on January 1st

1984: With a 6.4% cut in long-distance and international calling prices, AT&T begins a six-year campaign to reduce rates for its services.

1988: TAT-8, the first trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic communications link, goes into operation

1991: AT&T acquires NCR

1993: AT&T acquires McCaw Cellular Communications; one of the results of this transaction would later be the formation of the AT&T Wireless division

1995: The separation from AT&T of NCR and the company, subsequently named Lucent Technologies, was announced

1999: AT&T acquires TCI, which will be renamed AT&T Broadband

2001: AT&T Wireless becomes an independent company under another restructuring plan announced in 2000

2002: AT&T Broadband assets are transferred to Comcast Corporation

In 1876 invented telephone. This event formed the basis of the company, which later became known as AT&T– a brand that has become synonymous with the best and most reliable telephone service in the world. Company American Telephone and Telegraph(AT&T Corp.) was founded in 1885 and for quite a long time was a monopolist in the American market of local and long-distance communications.

In 1984 AT&T and the US Department of Justice signed an agreement according to which AT&T spun off a company providing local telephone services - SBC Communications Inc.(Southwestern Bell Corp.), but retained long-distance services, research and development, and manufacturing.

In 1996, the market situation changed significantly. SBC Communications Inc. strengthened its position and became provider global communications after acquiring Pacific Telesis Group in 1997, Southern New England Telecommunications in 1998 and Ameritech Corp. in 1999. In 2005 SBC Communications Inc. bought it herself AT&T from which she herself had previously separated. Name AT&T retained by the new, merged company.

After 2006 AT&T bought out BellSouth (the deal amounted to $67 billion) and consolidated the assets of Cingular Wireless and yellowpages.com, AT&T once again took a leading position in the American telecommunications market.

As of the end of 2008, the number of clients AT&T exceeds 74.9 million people. The company provides services in 22 US states (Alabama, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, California, Kentucky, Connecticut, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, South Carolina).

Stages of development.

1876-1956: the formation of an empire

1876: Invention phone Alexander Bell

1877: Company founded Bell Telephone Company

1878: Open in New Haven, Connecticut first telephone node; within three years, similar nodes appeared in all major US cities, giving rise to the company Bell System

1885: Founded on the third of March American Telephone and Telegraph Company(AT&T)

1892: Open toll line between New York and Chicago

1899: As a result of restructuring AT&T acquires assets of parent company, American Bell Telephone Company, and becomes owner of Bell System

1913: Litigation with federal authorities settled; AT&T receives status "officially sanctioned monopoly"

1915: The first one opened in the USA transcontinental telephone line; three minutes of talk between New York and San Francisco costs $20.70.

1925: Company founded Bell Telephone Laboratories

1927: Put into operation transatlantic telephone radio service; the cost of three minutes of conversation is $75.

1934: Open transpacific telephone radio service; three minutes of conversation between America and Japan costs $39.

1937: Clinton Davisson first employee AT&T becomes the winner of the Nobel Prize

1947: Invention of the transistor Bill Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain from AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories

1956: Another trial has been completed between AT&T and federal authorities; AT&T maintains status national telephone operator

1956-1984: on the way to partition

1956: Put into effect TAT-1, first transatlantic cable telephone channel

1958: AT&T presents the first ever commercial modem

1962: Launched Telstar I communications satellite, which made the first ever live television broadcast across the Atlantic

1964: Underwater telephone cable laid TPC-1 connecting Japan and the Hawaiian Islands by wire

1965: IN AT&T installed for the first time in the world electronic telephone switch

1968: Put into operation 911 service

1971: IN Bell Telephone Laboratories developed Unix OS

1974: The US Department of Justice initiates another antitrust case against AT&T

1977: To Chicago AT&T first communications company to use fiber optic cable in commercial communication systems

1982: As part of the settlement of the lawsuit AT&T agrees to division Bell System

1983: The first in the US opened in Chicago commercial cellular network

1984: The first of January Bell System ceases to exist

After 1984: to be continued

1984: Reduction in prices for long-distance and international calls by 6.4% AT&T begins a six-year campaign to tariff reduction for your services

1988: Commissioned TAT-8, first trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic communication channel

1991: AT&T acquires NCR

1993: AT&T acquires McCaw Cellular Communications; one of the results of this transaction will later be the formation of a division AT&T Wireless

1995: The separation from the composition was announced AT&T NCR company and the company subsequently named Lucent Technologies

1999: AT&T acquires TCI, which will be renamed AT&T Broadband

2001: In accordance with the next restructuring plan announced in 2000, the division AT&T Wireless becomes an independent company

2002: Assets AT&T Broadband corporations are moving Comcast

What is AT&T today?

• Turnover at the end of 2002 was $37.82 billion.
• Losses attributable to non-preferred shares - $13.08 billion (In 2001, total profit attributable to non-preferred shares was $9.15 billion)
• 72 thousand employees (including over 5 thousand outside the USA, in 60 countries).
• 3 million registered shareholders.
• 50 million service subscribers.
• 4 million business customers.
• Via network AT&T Network About 2,500 trillion are transmitted daily. bytes of data, which corresponds to the transmission of the entire contents of the US Library of Congress every 11.5 minutes.
• Online AT&T Network during every day working week About 300 million voice calls are processed.
• AT&T Network is a provider of dial-up Internet access services in 850 cities located in 59 countries.
• Annually AT&T allocates over $60 million for charitable purposes.

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