AT&T
...AT&T Wireless deals with cellular phone service, and AT&T deals with telephone service. AT&T has merged with several different companies along the way, all to become the names mentioned above. AT&T works to serve regular consumers, businesses, and government. This company is the largest communications network in the United States. AT&T has close to twenty-four residential customers and millions of business customers. AT&T places its offices based on where they can provide the most customers with their telephone service. AT&T has been around so long that many people buy and trust their services. This is a way for them to keep business up and running. It is important for AT&T to keep their name out there. In order to advertise, AT&T uses billboards, magazines, newspapers, and commercial ads. Keeping up with the worlds fast moving pace can be tough. This requires continuous innovation, improvement, and expansion in all areas. AT&T’s internal environment works around mostly providing local phone service. Local phone service is available in many places across the United States. You can have call waiting, caller id, three way calling, voice mail, and many other features with your local phone plan. Throughout the years, AT&T’s external environment has branched many different ways. AT&T now has prepaid calling cards, collect calling services, directory assistance, and provides cellular phone service. Using AT&T’s long distance plan, you can call anywhere in the world at a low rate. AT&T has offices in several different locations. AT&T is currently in the process of a new merger. AT&T and SBC are coming together to make one, and hopefully pull together more business. In the past, AT&T’s merge with Cingular was a success. AT&T is hoping the merge with SBC will be the same. In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patent expired and opened the telephone business up for competition. Over 6,000 telephone companies went into business. Verizon is one of AT&T’s competitors. Verizon was formed by the merge of Bell Atlantic and GTE. Verizon offers services such as DSL and internet, local phone plans, long dist...