Founded in 1983 and based in San Antonio, Texas, AT&T is the largest provider of local and long distance telephone service, wireless service, and broadband internet service in the United States. Solely based on revenue, AT&T Inc is the largest communications holding company in the world (http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5711). The company employees over 300,000 people worldwide and is among the 2007 Fortune 500. In fact the combined company would place ninth on the full U.S. list and 18th on the full global list. AT&T Inc. common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is traded under the stock symbol “T” which stands for telephone. In 2006, AT&T reported revenue of $63.055 billion and net income of $7.356 billion.
AT&T is the nation's largest U.S. wireless carrier based on subscribers, with 62.2 million, and provides service in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company serves millions of customers, with a concentration in 22 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. AT&T delivers the widest international coverage of any U.S.-based wireless carrier, giving customers the ability to use an internationally enabled phone on six continents and 190 countries, with wireless data-roaming in 120 countries for laptops, hand-held devices and other data services.
AT&T is the nation's largest directory publisher, delivering 178 million directories a year and publishing more than 1,250 different directories in 22 states. In addi ...