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**XinordiX** · 01-19-2011, 09:53 AM

There once was AT&T broadband and that was acquired by Comcast. Then AT&T took over for a DSL company called SBC which serves the same area that AT&T Broadband used to.

close. AT&T basically went bankrupt because they could no longer make any money off of long distance service. Southwestern Bell, the largest of the baby bells (way back, when ATT was forced to split the local service off for monopoly reasons) became SBC... but no one knew who SBC was, so they acquired the ATT trademark. So while the company is called ATT, it is really SBC's old network and their service is Uverse.

01-19-2011, 09:53 AM	#14
XinordiX Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	There once was AT&T broadband and that was acquired by Comcast. Then AT&T took over for a DSL company called SBC which serves the same area that AT&T Broadband used to. close. AT&T basically went bankrupt because they could no longer make any money off of long distance service. Southwestern Bell, the largest of the baby bells (way back, when ATT was forced to split the local service off for monopoly reasons) became SBC... but no one knew who SBC was, so they acquired the ATT trademark. So while the company is called ATT, it is really SBC's old network and their service is Uverse.
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