SBC Communications

SBC Communications is an American telecommunications company based in San Antonio, Texas, formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation.

Southwestern Bell was one of the original Regional Bell operating companies, or "Baby Bells," formed after U.S. antitrust action against AT&T; in 1983. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed Southwestern Bell to become a national telephone provider, and it subsequently bought fellow Baby Bells Pacific Telesis and Ameritech, then bought independent Bell System franchise SNET. AT&T had adopted the name Southwestern Bell for its local operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas in April 1920.

In 1998, Southwestern Bell changed its name to SBC Communications.

SBC currently provides local telephone service in 13 states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Wisconsin) and long distance service to 10 million customers and, along with fellow Baby Bell BellSouth, owns mobile phone provider Cingular. It is also a large American Internet Service Provider. It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol of "SBC."

See also

• Lists of public utilities

External link

• Corporate web site