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Southwestern Bell Texas then converted itself into a limited partnership and renamed itself Southwestern Bell Telephone, L.P., incorporated in Texas. [6] This company ceased to exist on June 29, 2007, when it was merged into SWBT Inc. , incorporated in Missouri, [ 7 ] which was founded just 8 days prior.
In 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired non-Bell company GTE and subsequently rebranded as Verizon Communications; Also in 2000, US West was acquired by non-Bell company Qwest; In 2005, SBC acquired former parent AT&T Corporation and took the AT&T name, becoming AT&T Inc. In 2006, BellSouth was acquired by AT&T Inc.
Southwestern Bell Wireless logo. Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. was a wireless telephone company. It was created in 1984 as a split-off of Advanced Mobile Phone Service, the original wireless subsidiary of the Bell System.
Southwestern Bell was a subsidiary of the original American Telephone & Telegraph Company, itself founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of the original Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1877. [10] [11] [12] In 1899, AT&T became the parent company after the American Bell Telephone Company sold its assets to its subsidiary. [13]
The Southwestern Bell Building is a 28-story, 121.0 m (397.0 ft) skyscraper constructed to be the headquarters of Southwestern Bell Telephone in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of its construction it was Missouri's tallest building. The building, which was one of the first in St. Louis to use setbacks, has 17 individual roofs. [5]
Edward Earl Whitacre Jr. (born November 4, 1941) is the former chairman and CEO of General Motors.He is also a former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of AT&T, previously Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC).
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The last year SWBYP'S were branded Southwestern Bell came in 2001, when "SBC" was added to the company names SBC owned, and SWBYP'S became known as SBC Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages. The Southwestern Bell branding was retired altogether in 2002 in favor of SBC's corporate standard SBC SMART Yellow Pages , inherited from Pacific Bell Directory .