AT&T; Inc. (NYSE: T) is the largest provider of local, long distance telephone services in the United States, and also serves digital subscriber line Internet access and digital television. AT&T; is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 81.6 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers. AT&T;, Inc. was formed in 2005, when "Baby Bell" SBC Communications Inc. purchased former "Ma B...
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AT&T; Inc. (NYSE: T) is the largest provider of local, long distance telephone services in the United States, and also serves digital subscriber line Internet access and digital television. AT&T; is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 81.6 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers. AT&T;, Inc. was formed in 2005, when "Baby Bell" SBC Communications Inc. purchased former "Ma Bell" AT&T; Corporation. The newly merged company took on the iconic AT&T; moniker and T stock-trading symbol (for "telephone").
The current AT&T; includes eleven of the original Bell Operating Companies, and the original long distance division. 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 (which was ultimately settled by the Modification of Final Judgment in 1982.) The...
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