AT&T Inc. is the leading provider of telecommunications services in the United States. AT&T services are wireless, wireline, alarm, digital tv, and internet. AT&T serve customers nationally with a wide-range of mobile and data services. They serve 110 million wireless subscribers as of January 2016. They also have voice coverage in more than 225 countries, and data roaming in more than 210 countries with 3G in more than 170 countries as of January 2016. AT&T successfully merged with DirecTV in 2015 a moved that according the CEO, “Marked an opportunity of the company to change the video entertainment industry.”
AS of 2015, AT&T is the 12th largest company in the United States by total revenue. They are the 3rd largest company in Texas. They are currently the largest non-oil company in Texas. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. That was the foundation of the company that would become AT&T - a brand that has become synonymous with the best, most reliable telephone service in the world.
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AT&T antitrust suit. The company changed its name in 1995 to SBC Communications Inc. and again in 2005 to AT&T Inc. after it purchased its former parent company, AT&T Corporation. The newly merged company took on the iconic AT&T logo and T stock-trading symbol (for "telephone"). The current AT&T reconstitutes much of the former Bell System and includes ten of the original 22 Bell Operating Companies along with one it partially owned (Southern New England Telephone), and the original long distance division. The company is headquartered in downtown Dallas,