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SBC closes AT&T acquisition
November 18, 2005
Starting Friday SBC Communications will be called AT&T, as SBC closes the books on its $16.9 billion acquisition.
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SBC, Hewlett-Packard form alliance
January 12, 2005
Nonexclusive deal will let them jointly develop and market IT and telecommunications products and services.
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Yahoo, Verizon launch co-branded DSL
August 23, 2005
update The companies are launching a DSL service for $14.95 a month, marking yet another major deal the Internet giant has inked with a telecom.
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2Wire's gateway to follow SBC into living room
January 5, 2005
The wireless-gateway maker expands its all-important SBC deal--but the clock may be ticking.
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SBC to acquire AT&T for $16 billion
January 31, 2005
SBC says the deal will give it one of the world's "most widely recognized and respected" brand names. Photos: AT&T's history of innovation
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Big ad campaign to usher in new AT&T
December 29, 2005
The reborn, postmerger Ma Bell gets its branding in order as competition heats up among telecom and cable companies.
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Telecom megamergers get final federal OK
October 31, 2005
The FCC gives green light to mergers of Verizon Communications and MCI, SBC Communications and AT&T.
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DOJ approves telecom megamergers
October 27, 2005
U.S. Department of Justice gives the green light on the Verizon-MCI merger and the SBC-AT&T transaction.
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Merger wave could leave telecom gear makers at sea
February 8, 2005
With telecom companies vanishing, it might not be the best time to be selling routers.
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BellSouth begins Microsoft IPTV trials
January 7, 2005
The Baby Bell is kicking Microsoft's tires for possible use in its Internet-based video service.
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AT&T to buy BellSouth for $67 billion
March 5, 2006
The combined company would generate about $130 billion in sales and serve nearly 70 million local phone customers.
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SBC, AT&T say Bell breakup doesn't work
February 22, 2005
Twenty years after Ma Bell fell, consumers need nationwide providers again, merging companies tell government regulators.
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This week in telecommunications
February 4, 2005
With SBC's deal to acquire AT&T and the rise of Skype, the last vestiges of the 20th-century's phone system are fading fast.
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Broadband: Cable, DSL face threats
July 29, 2004
special report Wireless and other networks pose new challenges to the duopoly.
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Feds defend approval of telecom megamergers
December 14, 2006
In court filing, the Justice Department tries to fend off criticism of analysis approving mergers between AT&T and SBC and Verizon and MCI.
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Level 3 to acquire WilTel
October 31, 2005
The telecom company will snap up WilTel's communications business in a stock and cash deal worth $680 million.
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Regional carriers expand horizons
February 15, 2005
SBC, Verizon morph into national players that will face off in direct competition.
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AT&T chief lands another SBC merger
January 31, 2005
Dave Dorman's history includes the CEO slot at Pacific Bell, another company absorbed into SBC.
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Telco heads can't rule out post-merger price hikes
March 2, 2005
CEOs of Verizon, SBC tell congressional panel that rate increases aren't planned after mega-mergers, but can't be ruled out.
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BellSouth picks Alcatel and Redback for broadband
February 8, 2005
The carrier will use their equipment to boost DSL speeds and one day serve video into homes.
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