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AT&T Corporation
FormerlyAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company (1885–1994)
Company typePublic
NYSE:T
IndustryTelecommunications
PredecessorAmerican Bell
FoundedMarch 3, 1885;139 years ago(1885-03-03)
New York City, United States[1]
FounderTheodore Newton Vail[2][3]
DefunctMay 1, 2024;5 months ago(2024-05-01)
FateDissolved
SuccessorAT&T Inc.
Headquarters
Bedminster,New Jersey
,
United States
Area served
United States
Products
ParentAmerican Bell(1885–1899)
AT&T(2005-2024)
SubsidiariesAT&T Communications

AT&T Corporation,commonly referred to asAT&T,an abbreviation for its former name, theAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company,was an Americantelecommunicationscompany that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

During theBell System's long history, AT&T was at times the world's largest telephone company, the world's largest cable television operator, and a regulated monopoly. At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, it employed one million people and its revenue ranged between US$3 billion in 1950[4]($41.3 billion in present-day terms[5]) and $12 billion in 1966[6]($117 billion in present-day terms[5]).

In 2005, AT&T was acquired by "Baby Bell"and former subsidiary SBC Communications for more than $16 billion ($25 billion in present-day terms[5]). SBC then changed its name toAT&T Inc.,with AT&T Corporation continuing to exist as along distancesubsidiaryuntil its dissolution on May 1, 2024.[7]

History

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Main article:History of AT&T

Origins

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ABell Systemlogo (called the Blue Bell) used from 1889 to 1916.
Share of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, issued 20. December 1921

AT&T started withBell Patent Association,a legal entity established in 1874 to protect the patent rights ofAlexander Graham Bellafter he invented the telephone system. Originally a verbal agreement, it was formalized in writing in 1875 asBell Telephone Company.[8][9]

In 1880 the management of American Bell had created what would becomeAT&T Long Lines.The project was the first of its kind to create a nationwide long-distance network with a commercially viable cost-structure. The project was formally incorporated in New York as a separate company namedAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Companyon March 3, 1885. Originating in New York City, its long-distance telephone network reachedChicago, Illinois,in 1892,[10]with its multitudes of local exchanges continuing to stretch further and further yearly, eventually creating a continent-wide telephone system. On December 30, 1899, the assets of American Bell were transferred into its subsidiary American Telephone and Telegraph Company (formerlyAT&T Long Lines); this was becauseMassachusettscorporate laws were very restrictive, and limited capitalization to ten million dollars, forestalling American Bell's further growth. With this assets transfer at the very end of the 19th century, AT&T became the parent of both American Bell and theBell System.[11]

AT&T was involved mainly in the telephone business and, although it was a partner withRCA,was reluctant to see radio grow because such growth might diminish the demand for wired services. It established stationWEAFin New York as what was termed atoll station.AT&T could provide no programming, but anyone who wished to broadcast a message could pay a "toll" to AT&T and then air the message publicly. The original studio was the size of a telephone booth. The idea, however, did not take hold, because people would pay to broadcast messages only if they were sure that someone was listening. As a result, WEAF began broadcasting entertainment material, drawing amateur talent found among its employees. Opposition to AT&T's expansion into radio and an agreement with theNational Broadcasting Companyto lease long-distance lines for their broadcasts resulted in the sale of the station and its developing network of affiliates to NBC.[12]

Monopoly

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Throughout most of the 20th century, AT&T held a semi-monopoly on phone service in the United States and Canada through a network of companies called theBell System.At this time, the company was nicknamedMa Bell.

On April 30, 1907,Theodore Newton Vailbecame President of AT&T.[13][14]Vail believed in the superiority of one phone system and AT&T adopted the slogan "One Policy, One System, Universal Service."[13][14]This would be the company's philosophy for the next 70 years.[14]

Under Vail, AT&T began buying up many of the smaller telephone companies includingWestern Union telegraph.[13][14]These actions brought unwanted attention from antitrust regulators. Anxious to avoid action from governmentantitrustsuits, AT&T and the federal government entered into an agreement known as theKingsbury Commitment.[13][14]In the Kingsbury Commitment, AT&T and the government reached an agreement that allowed AT&T to continue operating as a telephone monopoly, subject to certain conditions, including divesting its interest in Western Union. While AT&T periodically faced scrutiny from regulators, this state of affairs continued until the company's breakup in 1984.

Undersea communications and operations

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AT&T had a domestic and global presence in laying the infrastructure of undersea routes for telecommunications. In 1950, the U.S. Navy commissioned a network of undersea surveillance cables for foreign submarine detection. AT&T was probably, according to internal employees, involved in this Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS). After completion, AT&T began commercial operations in cable laying for communications in 1955.[15]The implementation of cables assured local and long-distance telephone or data services would provide revenue for the company.[16]AT&T Long Lineswas one of the divisions responsible for the cable-laying and maintaining of Long Lines' undersea cables.[17]Western Electricwas the manufacturing company responsible for production and supply of undersea coaxial equipment and later, fiber cables. Equipment such as repeaters was manufactured in Clark, New Jersey and coaxial cable was manufactured in Baltimore, Maryland.[18]Also,Bell Labswas responsible for the innovations of products[19]or technologies in cabling in transmission by undersea systems.[20]In 1955, the first trans-Atlantic telephone undersea cable,TAT-1,from North America to Europe was installed by AT&T. This installation allowed 48 telephone circuits to be used for long-distance calling.[21]When partnering with other global Telecommunications companies, such as the French Cables de Lyon and GermanFelten & Guilleaume,Bell Labs provided the specification and inspection of non Bell System cable for networks such as theTAT-2.[18]By the continuous undersea network installations, AT&T was a globally technology leader with the 1970 installedTAT-5and the 1975 installedTAT-6,achieving 720 channels and then 4000 channels for transmitting voice or data.[18]Prior to 1963, AT&T had to charter oceanic ships, such as theCS Monarch (1945)for installations. AT&T purchasedCS Long Linesin 1961 and operated it with several cable laying ships that would provide, either the laying or repair of cabling under the subsidiary, Transoceanic Cable Ship Company. After the break-up, AT&T operated their ships under a subsidiary called AT&T Submarine Systems Inc, based in Morristown, New Jersey, until they sold six ships to Tyco International Ltd in 1997 for $850 million.[22]AT&T continued to maintain their communication building facilities. Here is a list of the cable laying-ship fleet:

The 180,000-pound linear cable laying engine of CS Long Lines used for cable flow from storage to seabed.
  • CSLidiv(Decommissioned 1955) Built for AT&T Corp. for New York Telephone Company use. Decommissioned in 1955 and the CS Cable Queen was the replacement.[23]
  • CSCable Queen(Built 1951–1952) Built for AT&T Corp. for the Bell System usage by New York Telephone Company. A 65-foot small-scale underwater telephone cable-laying vessel. Decommissioned after 1989 with over 100,000 miles of cable laying.[24]
  • CSSalernum/Charles L. Brown(Built 1954) Built in Italy and named CS Salernum. Dimensions were length as 339.6 ft, breadth as 41.0 ft, depth as 18.5 ft, and gross tonnage at 2789. Purchased by AT&T Corp. through its subsidiary, Transoceanic Cableship Co., in 1984. Sold by AT&T in 1997 to Tyco International in the AT&T Submarine Systems fleet purchases. The wreck became an article reef in the Dutch Caribbean island, Sint Eustatius.[25]
AT&T Long Lines cable ship working on the cable linking mainland Vero Beach, Florida to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Typical maps, US to Venezuela cable route.
  • CSLong Lines(Built 1961–1963) Built for AT&T Corp. for the 1961 launching, but cable laying assignments began in 1963. The $19 million vessel was 511 feet length and 11,300-tons. Performed the laying of the first trans-Pacific telephone cable, known as TRANSPAC-1 (TPC-1) in 1964. and the first trans-Pacific fiber cable, known as TPC 3.[26]Sold in 1997 to Tyco International.[27]Scrapped in 2003.[26]
  • CSLink(Built 1990s) Owned by Transoceanic Cable Ship Co., a subsidiary of the United States–based telephone company, AT&T Corp.[28]
  • CSGlobal Sentinel(Built 1992) Maiden voyage from shipyard to Honolulu was February 1992. The 479-foot vessel equipped with bow thrusters, began cable laying operations in early 1992. Owned by Transoceanic Cable Ship Co., a subsidiary of the United States telephone company, AT&T Corp.[29]
  • CSGlobal Mariner(Built 1992) Built in Singapore. The 479-foot vessel was equipped with bow thrusters and had storage space for up to 4100 nautical miles of cable. Seafaring was done in December 1992 by Seafarers International Union crew. A SIU publication,Seafarers Log,indicated in January 1993 the vessel was the fifth cable ship of the AT&T Corp. fleet. It was a sister ship and identical to CS Global Sentinel. Owned by Transoceanic Cable Ship Co., the subsidiary of the United States AT&T telephone company.[30]

Between 1951 and 2000, AT&T was listed 73 times in cable laying operations for specific routes deployed.[31] The Cable ShipLong Lineshad 23 cable runs from 1963 to 1992, with the first deep-sea trial of optical fiber cable in 1982 leading to the consortium of countries and locations for theTAT-8fiber cable implementation of 1988.[32]

The Break-up

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Further information:Breakup of the Bell SystemandRegional Bell Operating Company
Logo used from 1984 to 1999

The United States Justice Department opened the caseUnited States v. AT&Tin 1974. This was prompted by suspicion that AT&T was using monopoly profits from itsWestern Electricsubsidiary to subsidize the cost of its network, a violation of antitrust law.[33]A settlement to this case was finalized in 1982, leading to thedivision of the companyon January 1, 1984, into sevenRegional Bell Operating Companies,commonly known as Baby Bells. These companies were:

AT&T Corporation
RBOCgrouped into "Baby Bells" split off in 1984
BellSouthAT&T Corporation
(non-LEC)		AmeritechPacific TelesisSouthwestern Bell
(laterSBC Communications)		Bell AtlanticNYNEXUS West
GTE
(non-RBOCILEC)		Qwest(non-ILEC)
Verizon
AT&T
(formerSBC)
CenturyLink
(non-RBOC ILEC)
AT&TVerizonLumen Technologies

Post-breakup, the former parent company's main business was nowAT&T Communications Inc.,which focused on long-distance services, and with other non-RBOC activities.

AT&T acquiredNCR Corporationin 1991. AT&T announced in 1995 that it would split into three companies: a manufacturing/R&D company, a computer company, and a services company.NCR,Bell Labsand AT&T Technologies were to be spun off by 1997. In preparation for its spin-off, AT&T Technologies was renamedLucent Technologies.Lucent was completely spun off from AT&T in 1996.

Acquisition by SBC

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Main article:AT&T

On January 31, 2005, the "Baby Bell"company SBC Communications announced its plans to acquire"Ma Bell"AT&T Corp. for $16 billion. SBC announced in October 2005 that it would shed the" SBC "brand and take the more recognizable AT&T brand, along with the old AT&T's" T "NYSEticker symbol.

Merger approval concluded on November 18, 2005; SBC Communications began rebranding the following Monday, November 21 as "the new AT&T"and began trading under the" T "symbol on December 1. Present-day AT&T Inc. claims AT&T Corp.'s history as its own, but retains SBC's pre-2005 stock price history and corporate structure. As well, all SEC filings before 2005 are under SBC, not AT&T.

The AT&T headquarters buildings

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From 1885 to 1910, AT&T was headquartered at 125 Milk Street in Boston. With its expansion it moved to New York City, to a headquarters on195 Broadway(close to what is now theWorld Trade Center site). The property originally belonged toWestern Union,of which AT&T held a controlling interest until 1913 when AT&T divested its interest as part of theKingsbury Commitment.[14]Construction of the current building began in 1912. Designed byWilliam Welles Bosworth,who played a significant role in designingKykuit,the Rockefeller mansion north ofTarrytown, New York,it was a modern steel structure clad top to bottom in a Greek-styled exterior, the three-story-high Ionic columns of Vermont granite forming eight registers over a Doric base.[34]The lobby of the AT&T Building was one of the most unusual ones of the era. Instead of a large double-high space, similar to the nearbyWoolworth Building,Bosworth designed what is called a "hypostyle hall", with full-bodied Doric columns modeled on the Parthenon, marking out a grid. Bosworth was seeking to coordinate the classical tradition with the requirements of a modern building. Columns were not merely the decorative elements they had become in the hands of other architects but created all the illusion of being real supports. Bosworth also designed the campus ofMITas well asTheodore N. Vail's mansion inMorristown, New Jersey.

AT&T Basking Ridge "Pagoda" campus renditions for office complex, 1972
AT&T 550 Madison Ave building no longer corporate headquarters after 1992 (pictured 2021)

In 1978, AT&T commissioned a new building at550 Madison Avenue.This new AT&T Building was designed byPhilip Johnsonand quickly became an icon of the newPostmodernarchitectural style. The building was completed in 1984, the very year of the divestiture of the Bell System. The building proved to be too large for the post-divestiture corporation and in 1993, AT&T leased the building toSony,who then subsequently owned the building until it was sold in 2013.[35][36]

AT&T Basking Ridge complex prior to becoming corporate headquarters. Satellite image from 1991

In 1969, AT&T began plans to construct an administration corporate complex in the suburbs. In early 1970, AT&T began purchases of land in the suburbs of New Jersey for this office complex and began construction in 1974. The award-winning architect,Vincent Kling,designed aFordism[37]style, luxurious "Pagoda"[38]campus layout and the construction firms: New York–based Walter Kidde andNewark, New Jersey–based Frank Briscoe, managed this joint venture construction project with Vollers Construction ofBranchburg, New Jersey,as the subcontractor. The 295 North Maple Avenue and Interstate 287 location ofBasking RidgeinBernards Township,New Jersey was completed in 1975 for the AT&T General Department offices. Employees began moving, in November 1975, to the seven inter-connected building complex using 28 acre of the property. The property had a 15-acre underground parking garage with spaces for 3,900 vehicles, and included a Class 1 licensed privatehelipad,a two-story cafeteria, a wood-burning fireplace, an indoor waterfall at the entrance lobby, and a seven-acre created lake for flood control. The entire property was 130 acre and cost $219 million to construct. Later, across the street from the complex, AT&T purchased additional land and established its Learning Center in 1985, at 300 North Maple Avenue, to become a 171 conference room inn. The AT&T Learning Center won the commercial property known as Somerset County's Land Development Award that year. In 1992, Basking Ridge location would become a corporate headquarters just before AT&T leased the New York City, 550 Madison Avenue building to Sony in 1993. The corporate statue, known as "Golden Boy"was moved in 1992, from the former New York City headquarters to this current New Jersey headquarters. In 1992, a corporate art consultant approached, artist sculptor,Elyn Zimmerman,to commission a 30-foot diameter project with fountain and seating area for the conference center courtyard gardens. In 1994, the project was completed and had one 34 ton granite boulder centered on top of the other boulders, which flowed water from the fountain designed by fountain engineer, Dr. Gerald Palevsky.[39]AT&T occupancy at the location peaked to 6,000 employees in its heyday before AT&T experienced competition and downsizing.

AT&T Learning Center courtyard, fountain sculpture designed by Elyn Zimmerman (not pictured)

In October 2001, the Basking Ridge property was 140 acre with 2.6 million square feet and was placed for sale.[40]Basking Ridge employee occupancy, prior to the sale were approximately 3,200 employees. In April 2002,Pharmacia Corporationpurchased the complex for $210 million for their corporate headquarters from existingPeapack-Gladstone, New Jerseyheadquarters.[41]A short time afterwards, in 2005,Verizonpurchased the former complex, excluding the hotel/conference room building,[42]fromPfizerfor Verizon Wireless Headquarters and consolidation of employees from Manhattan as well as other nearby New Jersey building locations.[43]In 2007, Pfizer placed the North Maple Inn for sale. At the time, it was a four-diamond, certified hotel and conference center under IACC ( "International Association of Conference Centers" ) designation.[44]In 2015, Verizon performed a sale-leaseback agreement valued at $650.3 million on the complex with the address previously known as One Verizon Way.[45]In 2017, the 35 acre hotel/conference center was known as the Dolce Basking Ridge Hotel and sold for $30 million.[46]

Dissolution

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On February 15, 2024, AT&T Inc. filed notice with the Kentucky Public Service Commission that it intends to make an internal structural change and merge AT&T Corp. into AT&T Enterprises, Inc., which will become alimited liability company.In a filing with theSouth Dakota Secretary of Statedated January 30, 2024, the reason given for the merger is thatNew Yorkstate law does not allow AT&T Corp. to be directly converted into an LLC.[47]Although acquired by SBC in 2005, AT&T Corp. has remained a separate entity within the corporate structure of AT&T Inc. The merger, said to create “greater operational efficiencies”, will end the existence of the nearly 140-year-old entity. The internal merger took effect on May 1, 2024.[48]

Divisions

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AT&T, prior to its merger withSBC Communications,had three core companies:

AT&T Alascomsold service in Alaska.AT&T Communicationswas renamedAT&T Communications – East, Inc.and sold long-distance telephone service and operated as aCLECoutside of the borders of theBell Operating CompaniesthatAT&Towned. It has now been absorbed into AT&T Corp. and all but 4 of the original 22 subsidiaries that formed AT&T Communications continue to exist. The AT&T company had become too large and the government, wanting to prevent a monopoly forced AT&T to break up.AT&T Laboratorieshas been integrated intoAT&T Labs,formerly namedSBC Laboratories.

Nicknames and branding

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AT&T was also known as "Ma Bell" and affectionately called "Mother" by phonephreaks.During some strikes by its employees, picketers would wear T-shirts reading, "Ma Bell is a real mother." Before the break-up, there was greater consumer recognition of the "Bell System" name, in comparison to the name AT&T. This prompted the company to launch an advertising campaign after the break-up to increase its name recognition. Spinoffs like theRegional Bell Operating CompaniesorRBOCs were often called "Baby Bells". Ironically, "Ma Bell" was acquired by one of its "Baby Bells",SBC Communications,in 2005.

The AT&T Globe Symbol,[49]the corporate logo designed bySaul Bassin 1983 and originally used byAT&T Information Systems,was created because part of theUnited States v. AT&Tsettlementrequired AT&T to relinquish all claims to the use ofBell Systemtrademarks. It has been nicknamed the "Death Star"in reference to the Death Star space station inStar Warswhich the logo resembles. In 1999 it was changed from the 12-line design to the 8-line design. Again in 2005 it was changed to the 3D transparent "marble" design created by Interbrand for use by the parent companyAT&T Inc.This name was also given to the iconicBell Labs facilityinHolmdel, New Jersey,now a multi-tenant office facility.[citation needed]

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List of AT&T chief executive officers

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The following is a list of the 16 CEOs of AT&T Corporation, from its incorporation in 1885 until its purchase by SBC Communications in 2005.[50]

# chief executive officer Years in office Title
1 Theodore Newton Vail 1885–1887 President
2 John E. Hudson 1887–1900 President
3 Frederick Perry Fish 1901–1907 President
4 Theodore Newton Vail 1907–1919 President
5 Harry Bates Thayer 1919–1925 President
6 Walter Sherman Gifford 1925–1948 President
7 Leroy A. Wilson 1948–1951 President
8 Cleo F. Craig 1951–1956 President
9 Frederick Kappel 1956–1961
1961–1967 		President
Chairman
10 H. I. Romnes 1967–1972 Chairman
11 John D. deButts 1972–1979 Chairman
12 Charles L. Brown 1979–1986 Chairman
13 James E. Olson 1986–1988 Chairman
14 Robert Eugene Allen 1988–1997 Chairman
15 C. Michael Armstrong 1997–2002 Chairman
16 David Dorman 2002–2005 Chairman

See also

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