SBC Long Distance

SBC Long Distance

Infobox_Company
company_name = SBC Long Distance, LLC
company_
company_type = Holding of AT&T
foundation = 1996
location = San Antonio, Texas, USA
industry = Telecommunications
dba = AT&T Long Distance
homepage = [http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=7908 AT&T Long Distance]

SBC Long Distance LLC [ [https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?523292 Missouri Secretary of State] ] [ [https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?1713059 Missouri Secretary of State] ] is a long distance telephone company owned by AT&T that does business as AT&T Long Distance. SBC Long Distance competes with other long distance providers who provide service within some of the Bell Operating Company service boundaries of AT&T. SBC Long Distance is "not" affiliated with AT&T Communications, the incumbent long distance carrier for most of the country acquired in the SBC merger with AT&T.

SBC Long Distance started in 1996 as Southwestern Bell Communications Services, Inc., created as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed the Baby Bells to compete for telephone service. In 2002, SWB Long Distance was renamed SBC Long Distance, as part of SBC's brand unification among its companies. In 2005, SBC purchased AT&T, and changed its name to AT&T. On April 1, 2006, SBC Long Distance began doing business as AT&T Long Distance.

SBC Long Distance provides competitive long distance service within the Bell Operating Company regions of Illinois Bell, Indiana Bell, Michigan Bell, Nevada Bell, Ohio Bell, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, and Wisconsin Bell. SBC Long Distance does not provide service for BellSouth Telecommunications customers, who are served by BellSouth Long Distance, nor does it provide service to SNET customers, who are served by SNET America.

SBC did not maintain an actual long distance network and instead relies on a smaller telecommunications company, Level 3, to provide service. SBC initially created the agreement with Level 3 predecessor company Williams Communication in 1999 [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-24-1999/0001029085&EDATE Williams Communications Forms Unique Alliance with SBC to Transport Long Distance Voice, Data Traffic; SBC Equity Investment Underscores Williams Communications' Network and Solutions Strategy] ] and soon begin to provide long distance service to SBC’s wireless subsidiary Cellular One/SBC Wireless and Ameritech Cellular, until SBC long Distance became fully developed.

Future

On June 15, 2005 SBC and Wiltel (new name of Williams Communications) announced an agreement on altering the two companies’ agreement. In this new agreement, Wiltel will help SBC transition off its network to the soon to be acquired AT&T’s legacy networks. [ [http://www.secinfo.com/dRx61.zd4.htm Court Docket on SBC/Wiltel agreement amendend] ] It is still uncertain if AT&T expects incorporate SBC Long Distance into AT&T Communications, a complete long distance operator. Since AT&T Long Distance provides only CSM/Billing and may only need to tap into AT&T Communications network resources.

References

External links

* [http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=7908 AT&T Long Distance]


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