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...By 2005, a denuded AT&T was bought for $16bn by SBC Communications, one of the Baby Bells....
...After all, the company was born on the downdraft of the dot-com implosion when SBC Communications purchased AT&T in 2005....
...Mr Stephenson worked at Mr Whitacre’s side while the gruff Texas-born “Big Ed” negotiated some of his biggest deals and transformed SBC Communications, the smallest of the “Baby Bells” after the 1984 court-appointed...
...AT&T has invested more than $4bn – much of it in Europe - to expand its enterprise communications capabilities since the old AT&T business was acquired by SBC Communications in 2006....
...SBC Communications, a predecessor of AT&T, paid $3.9bn for Sterling in early 2000....
...Mark Branson, a Briton best known as UBS’s former head of communications, will join the Finma banking and insurance supervisor on January 1....
...In one of those unlikely acquisitions made in the dotcom boom, the company was bought by SBC Communications and is now part of AT&T....
...He had helped pare the phone company’s debt load and, eventually, lead its sale to SBC Communications....
...Mr Dorman has spent nearly three decades in the US telecoms industry, including stints at Sprint, Pacific Bell, SBC Communications and Concert, a defunct global venture between AT&T and BT....
...Before the June 2000 share sale, he said, he had talked to Voicestream, but also to Qwest and SBC Communications, which now trades as AT&T....
...AT&T subsequently become part of the Dow again in November 2005, through its merger with SBC Communications, which had joined in 1999....
...Qwest Communications, the fourth largest US telecommunications group, on Monday named an experienced telecoms executive and retail manager, Edward Mueller, as its new chief executive....
...India’s second-largest mobile operator is Reliance Communications, led by Anil Ambani, one of India’s most influential families....
...Mr Whitacre began his career in 1964 at Southwestern Bell and took over as chief executive of the old SBC Communications group in 1990....
...From humble beginnings as chief executive of SBC Corporation, he went a long way towards re-creating Ma Bell during his aggressive 17-year deal spree (hoovering up Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Southern New...
...His main achievement at Lehman was to advise Edward Whitacre, then chief executive of SBC Communications, as he embarked on a three-year acquisition spree beginning in 2004....
...AT&T’s $86bn takeover of BellSouth was dealt a significant setback yesterday after a potential ally in its fight to gain regulatory approval at the Federal Communications Commission said he would abstain...
...Under the original deal, SBC Communications – now renamed AT&T – and Yahoo shared broadband DSL revenues. The agreement is reportedly generating more than $200m a year for Yahoo....
...AT&T’s $86bn takeover of BellSouth was dealt a significant setback on Monday after a potential ally in its fight to gain regulatory approval at the Federal Communications Commission said he would abstain...
...Take AT&T (formerly SBC). Since 2003 the group has snapped up AT&T Wireless for $41bn, AT&T itself for $16bn and BellSouth for $70bn....
...They provided the largest deal of the year when AT&T, formerly SBC Communications, capped a three-year acquisitions spree by agreeing to buy rival BellSouth for $83.4bn....
...Consolidated third-quarter net income at AT&T, which was formed through the merger of SBC Communications and the old AT&T a year ago, increased by 74 per cent as earnings at Cingular Wireless quadrupled...
...In 2004, Lehman worked for SBC Communications, AT&T’s predecessor, on the $41bn purchase of AT&T Wireless by Cingular, SBC’s wireless joint venture with BellSouth....
...In relative terms, however, shares in the acquisitive US regional operator, formerly known as SBC, have outperformed rival Verizon by 26 per cent in a year. Much comes down to margins....
...Excluding costs related to the merger of SBC Communications and AT&T late last year and other special items, earnings were 58 cents a share....
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