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Southwestern Bell is a subsidiary of AT&T that provides local telephone service in six states. It traces its history to The Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, founded in 1882, and has undergone several name changes and mergers over the years.
Learn about the origins, monopoly, and breakup of AT&T, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. AT&T was the primary telephone company in the US from 1885 to 1982, when it was split into regional and long-distance providers.
The Bell System was a monopoly of local telephone service in the U.S. that was broken up by a 1982 antitrust lawsuit. The breakup created seven independent regional companies, reduced AT&T's size and influence, and increased competition in the long-distance market.
AT&T is an American multinational telecommunications company that traces its origins to the Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell. It has undergone several mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, and is now the world's third-largest telecom company by revenue and the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S.
AT&T Internet is a division of AT&T Communications that provides internet access over fiber-optic or copper-wire networks. It offers various plans and speeds, from 5 Mbit/s to 5000 Mbit/s, and bundles with TV and phone services in some markets.
Learn how AT&T Wireless Services, formerly McCaw Cellular, became part of Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the US, and later AT&T Mobility. The article covers the company's origins, acquisitions, mergers, and products from 1987 to 2006.
The Beacon on Chestnut (stylized as THE BEACON on Chestnut, formerly One SBC Center, One Bell Center, One AT&T Center, and 909 Chestnut) is a 44-story building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri at 909 Chestnut Street on the Gateway Mall. It is Missouri's largest building by area with 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m 2). [5]
SBC Telecom is a private telecommunications company owned by AT&T that offers local telephone service outside the AT&T Bell Operating Company regions. It was formed in 1999 as a condition of SBC Communications' merger with Ameritech and is separate from Southwestern Bell Telecom.