At&T is the largest communications holding company in the world by revenue. Operating globally under the AT&T brand, we are:
- Proud to offer one of the world’s most advanced and powerful global backbone networks, carrying 18.3 petabytes of data traffic on an average business day to nearly every continent and country, with up to 99.999 percent reliability.
- The nation’s fastest 3G network serving 78.2 million customers and enabling them to travel and communicate seamlessly with the best worldwide wireless coverage — offering the most phones that work in the most countries. Offering voice coverage in more than 215 countries, data roaming in more than 170 and 3G in more than 95 countries.
- The U.S. wireless carrier for the new iPhone 3GS, which launched in June 2009 and revolutionized the industry.
- The only U.S. national service provider to offer a 100 percent IP-based television service with U-verse TV. AT&T Advanced TV offers you a TV choice that’s better than cable through AT&T U-verse TV and AT&T | DIRECTV.
- The nation’s largest provider of broadband — more than 16.9 million high speed Internet subscribers (as of 2Q09).
- The nation’s largest Wi-Fi provider, now offering customers access at more than 100,000 hot spots spanning countries around the world, (including company-owned and third-party roaming locations) — with the addition of approximately 7,000 Starbucks locations.
- One of the world’s largest providers of IP-based communications services for businesses, with an extensive portfolio of Virtual Private Network (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP) and other offerings — all backed by innovative security and customer support capabilities.
- The nation’s largest directory publisher, delivering print directories to 173 million.
- A world leader in the transport and termination of wholesale traffic — widely recognized for our industry-leading wholesale services portfolio.
- The parent of YELLOWPAGES.COM, a leading Internet Yellow Pages network that, when combined with AT&T Real Yellow Pages, receives approximately 5 billion consumer searches a year.
Corporate History
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.
In 1984, through an agreement between the former AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice, AT&T agreed to divest itself of its local telephone operations but retain its long distance, R&D and manufacturing arms. From this arrangement, SBC Communications Inc. (formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corp.) was born.
Twelve years later, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 triggered dramatic changes in the competitive landscape. SBC Communications Inc. established itself as a global communications provider by acquiring Pacific Telesis Group (1997), Southern New England Telecommunications (1998) and Ameritech Corp. (1999). In 2005, SBC Communications Inc. acquired AT&T Corp., creating the new AT&T.
With the merger of AT&T and BellSouth in 2006, and the consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and YELLOWPAGES.COM, AT&T is positioned to lead our industry in one of its most significant transformations since the invention of the telephone more than 130 years ago.
U.S. Presence
AT&T serves customers nationwide with a broad range of wireless voice and data services. We have the nation’s fastest 3G network and serve 78 million subscribers. We hold spectrum licenses in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. We also have the best worldwide coverage with voice coverage in more than 215 countries, data roaming in more than 170 and 3G in more than 95 countries. We serve millions of customers, concentrated in 22 states, with wired services, including broadband, long distance and local voice.
Global Reach
AT&T customers work and live in virtually every country and territory in the world. We serve millions of enterprise and multinational business corporations on six continents.
AT&T offers a variety of service plans that enable U.S.-based customers to stay connected to friends and work colleagues who are overseas. We also enable our customers to keep in touch when they travel outside the U.S.
AT&T provides the best coverage of any wireless carrier worldwide. We deliver the widest international voice coverage of any wireless carrier in the world. With AT&T, customers have the freedom to make wireless calls using an internationally enabled phone on all seven continents and in more than 200 countries. We offer wireless data coverage in more countries than any U.S. carrier — with wireless data-roaming in more than 170 countries for laptops, hand-held devices and other data services and third-generation (3G) services in more than 95 countries. We also offer wireless service on more than 130 cruise ships worldwide.
Global, National, Mid-Size, Regional and Government Portfolio
For our enterprise business customers, AT&T provides a single source for local, national, global and wireless voice and data services.
Our expansive portfolio also gives these customers access to advanced IP and traditional networking solutions for both voice and data. And customers can tap into our array of consulting and management experts for support on any element of network planning, design, deployment and ongoing management.
The leading U.S. provider of local and long distance voice services.
