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The following companies have become defunct or were sold under SBC/AT&T ownership:
Southern New England Telephone: sold to Frontier Communications in 2014[47]
Woodbury Telephone: merged into Southern New England Telephone on June 1, 2007.
Future of rural landlines[edit]
AT&T stated that it would declare the intentions for its rural landlines on
November 7, 2012.[48] AT&T had previously announced that it was considering a sale
of its rural landlines, which are not wired for AT&T's U-verse service; however, it
has also stated that it may keep the business after all.
AT&T was not the first Baby Bell to sell off rural landlines. Ameritech sold some
of its Wisconsin lines to CenturyTel in 1998; BellSouth sold some of its lines to
MebTel in the 2000s; U S WEST sold many historically Bell landlines to Lynch
Communications and Pacific Telecom in the 1990s; Verizon sold many of its New
England lines to FairPoint in 2008 and its West Virginia operations to Frontier
Communications in 2010.
On October 25, 2014, Frontier Communications took over control of the AT&T landline
network in Connecticut after being approved by state utility regulators. The deal
was worth about $2 billion, and included Frontier inheriting about 2,500 of AT&T's
employees and many of AT&T's buildings.[49]
Corporate structure[edit]
AT&T and subsidiaries.png
Holding companies and subsidiaries[edit]
AT&T office in San Antonio, Texas, with new logo and orange highlight from the
former Cingular
AT&T Inc. has retained the holding companies it has acquired over the years
resulting in the following corporate structure:
AT&T Inc., publicly traded holding company
AT&T Arkansas, AT&T Kansas, AT&T Missouri, AT&T Oklahoma, AT&T Southwest, AT&T
Texas
AT&T Teleholdings Inc, AT&T East, AT&T Midwest, AT&T West
AT&T Illinois
AT&T Indiana
AT&T Michigan
AT&T Ohio
AT&T Wisconsin
AT&T California
AT&T Nevada
AT&T Corp., acquired 2005
AT&T Alascom d/b/a AT&T Alaska
AT&T South
AT&T Alabama, AT&T Florida, AT&T Georgia, AT&T Louisiana, AT&T Kentucky, AT&T
Mississippi, AT&T North Carolina, AT&T South Carolina, AT&T Southeast, AT&T
Tennessee
AT&T Mobility
Cricket Wireless
AT&T Mexico[50]
DirecTV
Facilities and regions[edit]
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The company is headquartered at Whitacre Tower in downtown Dallas, Texas.[8] On
June 27, 2008, AT&T announced that it would move its corporate headquarters from
downtown San Antonio to One AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas.[8][51] The company said
that it moved to gain better access to its customers and operations throughout the
world, and to the key technology partners, suppliers, innovation and human
resources needed as it continues to grow, domestically and internationally.[52]
AT&T Inc. previously relocated its corporate headquarters to San Antonio from St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1992, when it was then named Southwestern Bell Corporation. The
company's Telecom Operations group, which serves residential and regional business
customers in 22 U.S. states, remains in San Antonio.[citation needed] Atlanta,
Georgia, continues to be the headquarters for AT&T Mobility, with significant
offices in Redmond, Washington, the former home of AT&T Wireless. Bedminster, New
Jersey, is the headquarters for the company's Global Business Services group and
AT&T Labs. St. Louis continues as home to the company's Directory operations, AT&T
Advertising Solutions.[53]
AT&T offers also services in many locations throughout the Asia Pacific; its
regional headquarters is located in Hong Kong.[54] The company is also active in
Mexico, and it was announced on November 7, 2014, that Mexican carrier Iusacell is
being acquired by AT&T.[25] The acquisition was approved in January 2015.[citation
needed] On April 30, 2015, AT&T acquired wireless operations Nextel Mexico from NII
Holdings (now AT&T Mexico).[55]
Corporate governance[edit]
CEO Randall L. Stephenson at the 2008 World Economic Forum
See also: Category:AT&T people
AT&T's current board of directors as of November 2016:[56]
Randall L. Stephenson chairman
Joyce M. Roch
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.
Richard W. Fisher
Scott T. Ford
Glenn H. Hutchins
William E. Kennard
Michael B. McCallister
Beth E. Mooney
Matthew K. Rose
Cynthia B. Taylor
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
Geoffrey Y. Yang[56]
The current management as of August 2017 includes:[57]
Randall L. Stephenson chief executive officer (CEO)
William A. Blase, Jr. - senior executive vice president of human resources
John J. Stephens senior executive vice president and chief financial officer
(CFO)
David S. Huntley senior executive vice president and chief compliance officer
Lori Lee CEO of AT&T International Inc.
David R. McAtee II senior executive vice president and general counsel
Robert W. Quinn Jr. senior executive vice president of external and legislative
affairs
John Donovan CEO of AT&T Communications Inc.
John Stankey CEO of Unnamed Media Division
Political involvement[edit]
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, AT&T is the second-largest donor
to United States political campaigns,[58] and the top American corporate donor,[59]
having contributed more than US$47.7 million since 1990, 56% of which went to
Republicans and 44% of which went to Democrats.[60] As an example, in 2005, AT&T
was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second
inauguration of President George W. Bush.[61][62][63] Bill Leahy, representing
AT&T, sits on the Private Enterprise Board of the American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC).[64] ALEC is a nonprofit organization of conservative state
legislators and private sector representatives that drafts and shares model state-
level legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
[65][66][67]
During the period of 1998 to 2010, the company expended US$130 million on lobbying
in the United States.[59] A key political issue for AT&T has been the question of
which businesses win the right to profit by providing broadband internet access in
the United States.[68] The company has also lobbied in support of several federal
bills. AT&T supported the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of
2013 (H.R. 3675; 113th Congress), a bill that would make a number of changes to
procedures that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) follows in its
rulemaking processes.[69] The FCC would have to act in a more transparent way as a
result of this bill, forced to accept public input about regulations.[70] AT&T's
Executive Vice President of Federal Relations, Tim McKone, said that the bill's
"much needed institutional reforms will help arm the agency with the tools to keep
pace with the Internet speed of today's marketplace. It will also ensure that
outmoded regulatory practices for today's competitive marketplace are properly
placed in the dustbin of history."[71]
Historical financial performance[edit]
The financial performance of the company is reported to shareholders on an annual
basis and a matter of public record. The unit (except where noted) is billions of
US dollars. Where performance has been restated, the most recent statement of
performance from an annual report is used.[72][73][74][2]
Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
2014 2015 2016
Revenues 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 Income 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
Number of employees (thousands) 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
Criticism and controversies[edit]
Hemisphere database[edit]
Main article: Hemisphere Project
The company maintains a database of call detail records of all telephone calls that
have passed through its network since 1987. AT&T employees work at High Intensity
Drug Trafficking Area offices (operated by the Office of National Drug Control
Policy) in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston so data can be quickly turned over to
law enforcement agencies. Records are requested via administrative subpoena,
without the involvement of a court or grand jury.
Censorship[edit]
In September 2007, AT&T changed its legal policy to state that "AT&T may
immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service,[75] any Member
ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name
used by you, without notice for conduct that AT&T believes ... (c) tends to damage
the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries."[76]
By October 10, 2007, AT&T had altered the terms and conditions for its Internet
service to explicitly support freedom of expression by its subscribers, after an
outcry claiming the company had given itself the right to censor its subscribers'
transmissions.[77] Section 5.1 of AT&T's new terms of service now reads "AT&T
respects freedom of expression and believes it is a foundation of our free society
to express differing points of view. AT&T will not terminate, disconnect or suspend
service because of the views you or we express on public policy matters, political
issues or political campaigns."[78]
Privacy controversy[edit]