American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/American_Telephone_&_Telegraph_Company_(AT&T)
GPTKB entity
Statements (53)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:telecommunications_company
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:AT&T
gptkbp:CEO gptkb:John_Stankey
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved 2005 (as original company, became AT&T Inc.)
gptkbp:divested gptkb:AT&T_Technologies
gptkb:Lucent_Technologies
gptkb:Western_Electric
gptkb:AT&T_Broadband
gptkb:NCR_Corporation
gptkbp:founded 1885
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Alexander_Graham_Bell
gptkbp:headquartersLocation gptkb:Dallas,_Texas,_United_States
gptkbp:historicalSignificance monopoly on US telephone service (20th century)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T)
gptkbp:industry gptkb:media
gptkb:technology
telecommunications
gptkbp:logo AT&T globe logo
gptkbp:netIncome $8.5 billion (2023)
gptkbp:notableAcquisition gptkb:DirecTV_(2015)
Time Warner (2018)
gptkbp:notableEvent breakup of Bell System (1984)
gptkbp:notableInvention gptkb:C_programming_language_(Bell_Labs)
gptkb:UNIX_operating_system_(Bell_Labs)
development of transistor (Bell Labs)
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:John_Stankey
gptkb:John_deButts
gptkb:Theodore_Vail
gptkb:Randall_L._Stephenson
gptkbp:numberOfEmployees about 160,000 (2023)
gptkbp:parentCompany Bell System (historically)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Bell_Telephone_Company
gptkbp:product broadband
network security
wireless communications
digital television
fixed-line telephone
gptkbp:researchDivision gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkbp:revenue $120.7 billion (2023)
gptkbp:servesArea gptkb:United_States
worldwide
gptkbp:spinOff WarnerMedia (2022, merged with Discovery Inc.)
gptkbp:stockExchange gptkb:S&P_500
Dow Jones Industrial Average (historically)
gptkbp:subsidiary gptkb:AT&T_Communications
gptkb:AT&T_Mobility
WarnerMedia (formerly, until 2022)
gptkbp:successor gptkb:AT&T_Inc.
gptkbp:tradedOn gptkb:NYSE:T
gptkbp:website https://www.att.com/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Frank_Baldwin_Jewett
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4