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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. It does business as other d.b.a. names in its operating region, which includes Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and portions of Illinois. The company is currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas at One AT&T Plaza . History.
Learn about the history and operations of Southwestern Bell Corporation, one of the regional holding companies formed after the breakup of AT&T's Bell System in 1983. Find out how it provides local telephone service to five states and operates in other industries such as directory publishing, mobile communications, and cable television.
The breakup of the Bell System resulted in the creation of seven independent companies that were formed from the original twenty-two AT&T-controlled members of the System. On January 1, 1984, these companies were NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell Corporation, BellSouth, and US West.
Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC) was one of the companies created by the breakup of AT&T Corp. The company soon started a series of acquisitions, including the 1987 acquisition of Metromedia mobile business and the acquisition of several cable companies in the early 1990s.
Learn how AT&T dominated the telephone market for most of the 20th century, but was forced to break up into eight companies in 1984. Find out how some of those companies, including Southwestern Bell, became part of AT&T again and grew even bigger.
May 20, 2014 · The whirlwind began in 1997, when Southwestern Bell Corp. (SBC) merged with fellow Baby Bell Pacific Telesis. Two years later, SBC bought Ameritech, another Baby Bell.
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Jan 31, 2005 · Learn how SBC, formerly Southwestern Bell, acquired AT&T in 2005 and became the nation's largest telecom firm. Hear from experts on the deal's implications for the industry and consumers.
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