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...The 58-year-old rose through the ranks at Southwestern Bell Telephone in his native Oklahoma after joining in 1982, and was chief operating officer when the regional telecoms company, then called SBC, launched...
...bought out, and Southwestern Bell of the US....
...After joining the former Southwestern Bell Telephone company in 1963 as facility engineer, Whitacre moved up the executive ladder during a period of technological and regulatory change to become SBC’s chairman...
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