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🕑 Added 2023-02-01 17:18:11 +0000 UTC
SBC Buys AT&T; The Learner Becomes the Master
January 31, 2005
SBC announced that it would purchase AT&T Corp. for more than $16 billion. This completed (maybe) the long and sordid tale of the old AT&T company after their breakup in 1984. SBC, one of the original “baby bells”, renamed itself AT&T after the merger, confusing nearly everyone in the world as to which company was which anymore (https://thisdayintechhistory.com/).
