...for sure the leading company's who by far have exceeded others such as At &T. Apple, and Verizon are also leading competitors in this field of technology. AT&T strives on having the newest technology and smart phones. It is also the worlds largest 4G network. We all know what AT&T has to offer us but do we know anything about the value of the company or how it gets the money to expand and be one of the worlds leading providers of telecommunications services. AT&T was started when the telephone was created by Alexander Grahman Bell and his partners in 1877. When AT&T first came to be, the company operated as a monopoly, trying to get acceptance from the United States government. In September 1995, AT&T announced a restructuring that would amount to the largest break-up of an American Business in history. AT&T remained a communications services company, Lucent Technologies took over systems and equipment, and NCR became a computer company. A&T was at times the world's largesst telephone company, one of tehe worlds largest cable providers, and the world's largest regulated monoply. At its peak in the 1950s and 1960s, it employed one million people and its revenue was roughly $300 billion a year in 2006 dollars. In 2005, AT&T was purchased by Baby Bell SBC Communications for more than $16 billion This DOW company offers the newest innovations in cellphones, Wifi, 4g broadband, and recently TV's. AT&T is quick to keep up with apple with the newest cell phones, and coming out...
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...Nt1330 Service Provider Types RBOCS Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCS) was formed in 1984 due to the breakup of AT&T based on a restructure agreement. RBOCs were organized into seven regional Bell holding companies called Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Nynex, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell, and US West. The BOCs were given the right to provide local phone service while AT&T was allowed to retain its long-distance service. RBOCs are progressively making available new telephone carrier technologies such as ISDN and DSL. (Margaret Rouse, 2008) LECS & ILECs Local exchange carriers (LECs) are separated into mandatory LECs (ILECs) and competitive LECs (CLECs).These carriers use the public switched telephone network system for accessing consumers. Unbundling the network helps to create the ability for CLECs to compete with ILECs. This is discussed as local-loop unbundling (LLU or LLUB). MSO Multiple system operators (MSO) are operators of multiple cable television systems. The majority of system operators run cable systems in more than one community. Cable companies offer and promote television services to consumers using radio frequency over HFC hybrid fiber copper and radio frequency over glass networks. ISP ISP is an internet service provider company the offers access to the Internet. An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that an access ISP connects a consumer to the Internet using copper or fiber-optic cables, or through a wireless...
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...Brenda Deni NT1310: Physical Networking Unit 2 Assignment 1 3/30/2014 Service Provider Types * RBOCS: Regional Bell Operating Company Service * Regional Bell operating company (RBOC) is a term describing one of the U.S. regional telephone companies (or their successors) that were created as a result of the breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T, known also as the Bell System or "Ma Bell") by a U.S. Federal Court consent decree on December 31, 1983. The seven original regional Bell operating companies were Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, and US WEST. It is important in telecommunications because RBOCs are generally in competition for digital data and Internet traffic with wireless service providers and cable TV companies. RBOCs are gradually making available new telephone carrier technologies such as ISDN and DSL. * ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier * Is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of the breakup of AT&T into the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), also known as the "Baby Bells." The ILEC is the former Bell System or Independent Telephone Company responsible for providing local telephone exchange services in a specified geographic area. ILECs compete with competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC). When referring to the technical communities ILEC is often used just to mean a telephone provider. * CLEC: Competitive...
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...companies and the consumers. With the information from market analysts, alongside the opinions of many involved, the fact of the matter is that there is an impact on every decision made within this mobile market, which will affect the United States in the long run . As we can tell by the history of the rise and fall of cell phone competition in the United States, we started out with numbers of telephone companies, maintaining a healthy competition. However as time passed by, especially in the case of the original AT&T, it all ended up with one company eating up the rest, achieving absolute control over the market. In this particular instance, the original AT&T was forced to split into seven “Baby Bells,” by the United States Department of Justice in a long-running antitrust suit. While this stimulated a growth in competition and awareness of possibilities within the industry, all but one “Baby Bell,” Bell Atlantic, merged together to recreate the behemoth that was AT&T. Luckily, Bell Atlantic grew to become Verizon Wireless, preserving a sense of competition in a vastly unsaturated mobile market. In the market of today, these four players reign supreme, and because of this they have the ability to affect the market as they...
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...will limit my discussion to what had been known as “phone service” and not broadcast entities (TV, radio, etc...) nor shall I dwell on the so-called Cable industry. The analysis shall also be primarily focused on the domestic market. Throughout the world, historically the communication industry has overwhelmingly been a monopoly. This was also true in the United States. As AT&T evolved from the late 19th century, except for a year as a nationalized company, existed as a national monopoly. In the so- called Progressive era of the 1910’s, the idea that a natural monopoly would be more efficient and economical than competing systems took hold. The idea of universal service, with rural rates being lower than urban rates (price discrimination). While never a “true” monopoly, with its substantial market share, and restrictions on connecting non-Western Electric equipment to its network, AT&T operated as one. The barriers to entry were primarily economic, the expensive right-of-way access and materials for wired connectivity being first among them. The restriction of un approved devices not being allowed on the AT&T network, limited interconnecting between competitors as well as additional connection & maintenance fees contributed to its dominance. As a monopoly, there were limited phone styles, and little need for deep price reduction through economy of scale or innovation, though state commissions regulated rates. The upside of the additional revenue, Bell Laboratories had been able...
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...Eric Satchell NT1330 Service Provider Types Unit 2 Assignment 1 July 3, 2014 Comparing Service Providers There are a lot of companies providing services, but AT&T provided telephone communication to the public. AT&T monopolized the telecommunication industry until the United States took them to court for antitrust and won. AT&T was broken up into eleven smaller companies, call Baby Bells. One of the companies that derived from this law suit was the Regional Bell Operating Company or RBOC. RBOC was a term that described one of the US telephone companies that provided telephone, telegraph, and long distance to the consumers. RBOC is part of a local exchange carrier allowed to compete for business. RBOC services internet service which in turn dealt with digital data. The merging companies provided different types of service based on the Telecommunication Act of 1996. ILEC or incumbent local exchange carrier is a telephone company that provided local telephone communications before the ruling to break up the Ma Bell Company. The FCC ruled that the ILECs must provide other telecommunications service providers access to their equipment to be able to provide a better rate to the consumer. This ruling...
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...Brooke Elise Jones passed away in a tragic automobile accident, early morning on Wednesday, October 28th, 2015, in Dallas Texas; she was born in Rockford, Illinois, June 7th, 1993. Brooke attended Rockford East High School until her junior year. While there she was a member of the varsity swim team, her freshmen through junior year. At the end of her junior year she and her family moved to Roscoe Illinois, where she attended and graduated from Hononegah Community High School in May of 2011. Brooke always enjoyed working with children, so after graduating high school she got a job working as a Direct Support Professional, at a group home for mentally challenged children. The children she worked with ranged in age from 7 to 21 years old. Toward the end of the year, Brooke moved to live with her mother in Omaha, Nebraska. Shortly after she earned a position as an Assistant Teacher, working with 3 year olds, at Rosewood Children’s Academy. She also worked part-time as a swim instructor for children at the YMCA. After working at both of those jobs for a while, she was extremely fortunate to come across a job opportunity at a local, podiatrist office in Fremont, Nebraska. Brooke worked as the Front Desk Receptionist for about a year. She also worked as a part-time nanny for one of the neighbor kids on her days off. Right before Brooke turned 21, she took a vacation to Texas to celebrate her upcoming birthday with her best friend who was attending the University of North Texas...
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...AT&T | When Information Systems Mislead | | Yondondo Stewart | | | Table of Contents Background…………………………………………………………Page 3 Leveling the Playing Field………………………………………….Page 3 Business Applications………………………………………………Page 4 Developed Applications…………………………………………….Page 5 Impact of MSOC……………………………………………………Page 8 Recommendation for the use of MSOC…………………………….Page 11 Bibliography………………………………………………………….Page 12 Background AT&T was once the parent company the Bell System. In 1984, Bell System was forced to divest there company into eight smaller companies, in reaction to the United States versus AT&T Anti-Trust suit. As a result of the separation and some misguided acquisitions, AT&T saw its value drop drastically. In 2005 Southwestern Bell Corp. (who had changed its name to SBC) purchased AT&T Corp. who in turn changed its name to AT&T Inc. AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States. They also provide broadband and subscription television services. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T) By the end of 2008, AT&T had discontinued and removed all of its pay telephones. With the decline in phone services, including traditional home phones, the company needed to develop new technologies. The company had to strategize a way back into the consumer’s residence. So, AT&T deployed a new media called U-Verse and extended its high-speed internet into rural areas. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T) Leveling...
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...Telecommunications Tyson Gant ITT Technical Institute 1: Describe a local land line phone system based on the following Landline Telephone Components: a) Local loop is the physical link or circuit that connects from the demarcation point of the customer premises to the edge of the common carrier or telecommunications service provider's network. b) Central office is an office in a locality to which subscriber home and business lines are connected on what is called a local loop. c) The central office has switching equipment that can switch calls locally or to long-distance carrier phone offices. d) A local system is a central system of switches and other equipment that establishes connections between individual telephones. Also called switchboard. e) POP is a physical location, either part of the facilities of a telecommunications provider that the ISP rents or a separate location from the telecommunications provider, that houses servers, routers, ATM switches and digital/analog call aggregators. f) Long distance system is a system that provides connections between local exchanges in different geographic areas. g) Fixed lines are lines used for denoting or relating to telecommunications systems using cables laid across land, as opposed to cellular radio systems. 2: Define and describe the following Telecommunications Network Components: a. Cellular Telephones: a. The Network Voice Protocol (NVP) was a pioneering computer network...
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...AT&T Professor: Dr. Yates Group 12 December 04, 2014 Authors: Lauren Young, Sarah Yeakel, Muhammad Alkahlout, Alejandro Perezreynoso, Festus Oguhebe Jr. AT&T Inc., a holding company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in 1983, has its main offices in Dallas, Texas. Formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. (SBC), AT&T was one of several regional holding companies originally created under AT&T Corp.’s (ATTC) local telephone companies. On January 1, 1984, SBC Communications separated from ATTC and became an independent publicly traded telecommunications services provider. The company merged with Pacific Telesis Group in 1997, Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation in 1998 and Ameritech Corporation in 1999. The merger expanded the company’s wireline operations into a total of 13 states. In November 2005, one of the SBC subsidiaries merged with ATTC, creating one of the world’s leading telecommunications providers. In connection with the merger, SBC Communications Inc. became “AT&T Inc.” Currently, AT&T has ninety-one (91) outstanding bonds. AT&T has forty-one (41) callable bonds. AT&T has a coupon rate ranging from 0.618 to 13.750 and a maturity date ranging from 2006 to 2097 (12/15/2006 to 07/15/2097). The interest rate, or yield, for the bonds ranges from -13.217 to 7.460. AT&T’s debt is rated from A to –A-. Investing in bonds depends on the goals of the investor, the...
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...LG, Blackberry, these supplies provide a variety of wireless telephones, smartphones and PDA’s. Threat of substitute products and services, Verizon offers many plans and services to accommodate the customer’s needs. A possible threat would be the Nextel Technology that produces the walkie-talkie device used in commercial companies and used by construction workers. The threat of new entrants is low being that is it hard to place gain access to a new service provider. Although wireless companies merge together all involved benefits from the advantages of both companies, creating the threat as a new entrant, making competition higher and others must adjust its strategies. The rivalry among AT&T and Verizon has existed for years, both have the highest number of customers in the U.S., AT&T is known for its roll over minutes and Verizon for its...
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...Provider Types 09-27-2012 RBOCS (RBOC) is a term describing one of the U.S. regional telephone companies (or their successors) that were created as a result of the breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T, known also as the Bell System or "Ma Bell") by a U.S. Federal Court consent decree on December 31, 1983. The seven original regional Bell operating companies were Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell, and US WEST. RBOCs are generally in competition for digital data and Internet traffic with wireless service providers and cable TV companies. RBOCs are gradually making available new telephone carrier technologies such as ISDN and DSL. ILEC An ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) is a telephone company in the U.S. that was providing local service ILECs include the former Bell operating companies which were grouped into holding companies known collectively as the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs). A "local exchange" is the local "central office" of an LEC. Lines from homes and businesses terminate at a local exchange. Local exchanges connect to other local exchanges within a local access and transport area (LATA) or to interexchange carriers (IXC) such as long-distance carriers AT&T, MCI, and Sprint. CLEC In the United States, a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) is a telephone company that competes with the already established local telephone business by providing its own network and switching...
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...FNCE 6330 – Fall 2012 Class portfolio project, part I Due: August 27 Blackboard folder: Project, Parts I&II\Portfolio Project, part I This project has three goals. The first is to compare (contrast?) the investment practices of eight legendary investors to the theoretical methods considered in this class. The second is to give you an opportunity to work with real data, albeit over an unrealistically short time horizon. The third and most important goal is that the investor and stock selection process be interesting and fun. Please do not let it turn into a huge time commitment. The assignment is as follows. Part I 1. Go to the Project folder on our website. There you will find links to the biographies of 8 legendary investors. The chapters describing the investors come from John Train's books, The Money Masters and The New Money Masters. Browse the investor profiles and select an investor that interests you. 2. Read the chapter that describes your chosen investor. 3. Choose one stock that reflects your investor's stock selection style. Links to helpful stock-screening websites can be found in the Webliography on eCollege or External Links on Blackboard. Your stock's price must be reported on the Yahoo! Finance web site (link in Webliography or External Links) and have weekly price data going back to July 5, 2011. 4. Go to finance.yahoo.com and download the weekly price series for your stock. To do this, enter your stock's ticker symbol in...
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...Telecommunications Exercise Sharon Cadwell ITT Technical Institute NT1310 Physical Networking Doyle Williams 3/23/14 Telecommunications Exercise 1) Local Loop a. The local loop is the physical wiring that connects you to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). This line can be a voice line, or it can be a data line. The physical wiring for the local loop consists of a pair of twisted copper wires that run from the telephone company's central office (CO) to the subscriber's premise and another pair of twisted copper wires that run back to the telephone company's CO. 2) Central Office b. In telephone communication in the United States, a central office (CO) is an office in a locality to which subscriber home and business lines are connected on what is called a local loop. The central office has switching equipment that can switch calls locally or to long-distance carrier phone offices. In other countries, the term public exchange is used. 3) Local Exchanges c. A local exchange carrier (LEC) is the term used in the U.S. for describing the telephone company which operates within a local area and provides telecommunication services within that area. i. Local exchange carriers started across the U.S. following the breakup of the Bell system due to antitrust regulations. Local exchange carriers are allowed only to handle local calls, and not any long-distance traffic. 4) POP d. Point of presence (POP) is the point...
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...A local loop is the wired connection from the telephone company’s central office in a local area to its customer’s telephones. It was originally constructed for voice transmission only using analog transmission on a single voice channel. Today, your computer's modem makes the conversion between analog signals and digital signals. With Integrated Services Digital Network or Digital Subscriber Line, the local loop can carry digital signals directly and at a much higher bandwidth than they do for voice only. The central office is an office in a local area which subscribers home and business lines are connected; it has equipment that can switch calls locally or to long distance carriers. Local exchanges, a telephone exchange, are a telecommunications system used in the public switch telephone network. An exchange consists of electrical units, in older systems human operators, which combine telephone subscriber lines or virtual circuits of digital systems to provide telephone calls between subscribers. A telephone exchange is located in a central office, a building used to house the inside plant equipment for possibly several telephone exchanges. POP or point of presence is an access point to the internet; internet service providers generally have multiple POPS. A point of presence is a physical location, either part of the facilities of a telecommunications provider that the ISP rents or a separate location from the telecommunications provider that stores servers, routers, ATM...
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