AT&T Family Talk with Rollover | Television Commercial | 2008
7AT&T Family Talk with Rollover | Television Commercial | 2008
AT&T's corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas
Formerly called
Southwestern Bell Corporation (1983–1995)
SBC Communications, Inc. (1995–2005)
Type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: T
S&P 500 Component
SPBEX: T
Industry
Telecommunications
Mass media
Predecessor
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Founded
October 5, 1983; 33 years ago[1]
Headquarters
Dallas, Texas, United States
Area served
North America and South America
Key people
Randall Stephenson (Chairman & CEO)[2]
Products
Satellite television
Fixed line telephone
Mobile phone
Broadband Internet access
Digital television
Digital home security
Revenue
US$146.8 billion (2015)[3]
Operating income
US$27.7 billion (2015)[3]
Net income
US$13.3 billion (2015)[3]
Total assets
US$401.81 billion (2015)[3]
Total equity
US$123.64 billion (2015)[3]
Number of employees
243,620 (2015)[3]
Divisions
AT&T Business Solutions
AT&T Consumer Mobility
AT&T Entertainment & Internet Services
AT&T International[4][5][6]
Subsidiaries
AT&T Corporation
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
Time Warner(acquire)
Website
www.att.com
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate, headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.[7] AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephone services and the largest provider of fixed telephone services[8] in the United States, and also provides broadband subscription television services through DirecTV. AT&T is the third-largest company in Texas (the largest non-oil company, behind only ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, and also the largest Dallas company).[9] As of May 2014, AT&T is the 23rd-largest company in the world as measured by a composite of revenues, profits, assets and market value,[10] and the 16th-largest non-oil company.[11] AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in the world by revenue. As of 2016, it is also the 17th-largest mobile telecom operator in the world, with 130.4 million mobile customers.[12] AT&T was ranked at #6 on the 2015 rankings of the world's most valuable brands published by Millward Brown Optimor.[13]
AT&T Inc. began its existence as Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC's) created in 1983 in the divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (founded 1885, later AT&T Corp.) following the 1982 United States v. AT&T antitrust lawsuit. Southwestern Bell changed its name to SBC Communications Inc. in 1995. In 2005, SBC purchased former parent AT&T Corp. 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.
The current AT&T reconstitutes much of the former Bell System and includes ten of the original 22 Bell Operating Companies, along with the original long distance division.[