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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 .
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Statistics: Public Company. Incorporated: 1920 as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Employees: 203,000. Sales: $46 billion (1998) Stock Exchanges: New York. Ticker Symbol: SBC. NAIC: 513310 Wired Telecommunications Carriers; 513322 Cellular and Other Wireless Telecommunica-tions; 511140 Telephone Directory Publishers.
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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.
AT&T Inc. is the parent company of BellSouth Corporation, which merged with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in 2006. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company operated in five study area jurisdictions: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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.
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