Analyzing AT&T Inc.
1. The company
a. Brief description of the company
AT&T is a groundbreaking company and has been that way for many years. AT&T Inc. provides telecommunications services to consumers and businesses in the United States and internationally. Its offers countless wireless voice, data, text, and local wireless, long-distance, and roaming services. They have become so big that sometimes they are looked as a monopoly. It sells various items through its stores, agents, or third party retail stores. They served approximately 110 million wireless subscribers worldwide. The company’s Wire line segment provides data services, DSL Internet access, network integration, managed Web hosting, packet, and enterprise networking services. …show more content…
In 1927, AT&T presents the first demonstration of television in the United States. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 's live moving image was transmitted over cable to New York, where AT&T President Walter Gifford and a large audience saw it. London was the first place AT&T being transatlantic service was the conversations crossed the Atlantic via radio. The initial capacity is one call at a time, at a cost of $75 for the first three minutes, also in the early 1900 was very …show more content…
Telstar transmits the first live television in that time across the Atlantic. AT&T created 911 as a nationwide emergency number that we still use today. In 1977 and in later years, AT&T opens its first Network Operations Center that lead to a real-time active management of its entire long distance network from a single location. AT&T was first to installs the first fiber optic cable in a commercial communications system in Chicago, IL. In 1988, AT&T lays and opens the first fiber optic submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic. It has a capacity equivalent to 40,000 calls. Today 's cables have capacities equivalent to over 1,000,000 calls. In 1993, AT&T announces a definitive merger agreement with McCaw Cellular Communications Inc, the largest provider of cellular service in the United States. The acquisition is later renamed AT&T Wireless. AT&T completes the transaction in 1994. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. It is the first rewriting of the nation 's communications laws since 1934. The bill 's purpose is to promote competition between local telephone companies, long distance telephone companies and cable companies by establishing procedures for the elimination of legal and regulatory barriers between these industries. Lucent Technologies, AT&T 's products and systems business, becomes an independent
1. The company
a. Brief description of the company
AT&T is a groundbreaking company and has been that way for many years. AT&T Inc. provides telecommunications services to consumers and businesses in the United States and internationally. Its offers countless wireless voice, data, text, and local wireless, long-distance, and roaming services. They have become so big that sometimes they are looked as a monopoly. It sells various items through its stores, agents, or third party retail stores. They served approximately 110 million wireless subscribers worldwide. The company’s Wire line segment provides data services, DSL Internet access, network integration, managed Web hosting, packet, and enterprise networking services. …show more content…
In 1927, AT&T presents the first demonstration of television in the United States. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 's live moving image was transmitted over cable to New York, where AT&T President Walter Gifford and a large audience saw it. London was the first place AT&T being transatlantic service was the conversations crossed the Atlantic via radio. The initial capacity is one call at a time, at a cost of $75 for the first three minutes, also in the early 1900 was very …show more content…
Telstar transmits the first live television in that time across the Atlantic. AT&T created 911 as a nationwide emergency number that we still use today. In 1977 and in later years, AT&T opens its first Network Operations Center that lead to a real-time active management of its entire long distance network from a single location. AT&T was first to installs the first fiber optic cable in a commercial communications system in Chicago, IL. In 1988, AT&T lays and opens the first fiber optic submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic. It has a capacity equivalent to 40,000 calls. Today 's cables have capacities equivalent to over 1,000,000 calls. In 1993, AT&T announces a definitive merger agreement with McCaw Cellular Communications Inc, the largest provider of cellular service in the United States. The acquisition is later renamed AT&T Wireless. AT&T completes the transaction in 1994. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. It is the first rewriting of the nation 's communications laws since 1934. The bill 's purpose is to promote competition between local telephone companies, long distance telephone companies and cable companies by establishing procedures for the elimination of legal and regulatory barriers between these industries. Lucent Technologies, AT&T 's products and systems business, becomes an independent