...AT&T AT&T Introduction AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services. AT&T is the second largest provider of mobile telephony service in the United States, with over 85.1 million wireless customers, and more than 210 million total customers. From the smallest changes to the most revolutionary development, AT&T has shaped the world by shaping the way how people communicate. Looked back about 130 years, AT&T always looked forward and searched for the next breakthrough to make communication more convenience. It brought meaningful changes to customers’ live since it wanted to shape the future also. Background 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell perfects telephone 1877 – Bell’s backers found Bell Telephone 1878 – New England Telephone is founded 1879 – 2 operating units are consolidated into National Bell Telephone 1882 – Bell company gains control of Western Electric which is the no.1 electrical equipment manufacturer in USA 1885 – AT&T is formed as subsidiary company of American Bell. Its mission is “Build the first long distance network. 1890 – Bell’s patents expires 1892 – There was the first line connects New York to Chicago. 1899 – Bell changes its name to AT&T and moves its headquarters to New York 1913 – AT&T agrees to buy no more independent phone companies 1914 – AT&T completes the first transcontinental line. 1917 – AT&T completes...
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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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...AT&T Executive Summary AT&T provides telecommunication services to consumers, businesses and other entities. More specifically AT&T is classified as a diversified telecommunication services. AT&T has been around since 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. (http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5711). Headquartered in Dallas, TX, AT&T is the largest landline and wireless service providers in America. They also provide Uverse, which is ultra-high speed internet and interactive high definition cable TV service. AT&T also provides wireless phone and data service, primarily to American customers, in over 200 countries. (http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5711). The US wireless market constitutes over 243M wireless subscribers. This represents a market penetration of 81%. The wireless market sells mobility of voice and data (video-media, download content and internet access). The wireless market is distributed between the following major competitors and distinguishing technology. AT&T- TDMA,GSM, UMTS/HSPDA Verizon Wireless – CDMA, EV-DO Sprint-Nextel- CDMA, EV-DO T-mobile - GSM, UMTS AT&T's Strategies vs. Competitors' Strategies AT&T's strategy is "bringing it all together for their customers, from revolutionary smartphones to next-generation TV services and sophisticated solutions for multi-national businesses." (http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5711). AT&T is a horizontally diversified, related businesses...
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...for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best material, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.” – Henry Ford One of the most impactful innovations in American history was in, 1913, when Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company introduced the Ford Model T. The Model T was the first automobile that was constructed on an assembly line. What makes the Model T revolutionary, however, is that it was the first automobile that was affordable to the general public. Before the Model T, automobiles were considered a high luxury item that only the rich could afford. However, using the idea of an assembly line with interchangeable parts, which he perfected, he was able to drastically reduce the time and expense required to construct a Model T. He then transferred those savings on to his customers, which revolutionized the automobile industry. Through the use of Ford’s method, which took the assembly line idea and the added conveyor belts, he was able to realize his dream to make a car for the ordinary man, while also changing the way cars were manufactured for generations to...
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...The Model T was more than just an ordinary car. It made history and that’s what changed the world forever. The man that was behind this amazing concept was Henry Ford. He was a revolutionary businessman that believed in his self and often quoted, “I will build a motorcar for the great multitude.” Ford had brilliant ideas with different techniques that transformed millions of people still to this day. Ford impacted America in three major ways the assembly lines, workforce and economic growth. In 1908 he moved his assembly line to the Piquette Avenue Plant located in Highland Park, Michigan. The first production assembled at this plant was the Model T vehicles. Through interchangeable parts, standard manufacturing and a division labor, the demand greatly increased for the Model T vehicle. Ford ran into a problem, the production of these cars took 12 hour and 8 minutes. He quickly turned that time around because of high demands and it only took 1 hour and 33 minutes for production. Ford was known as the man who put the world on wheels. He produced more cars than any other manufacturing combined together. It forever changed our automotive workforce. Ford discussed his innovation techniques which were to share his profit with the workers and pay them five dollars a day. He knew this would double the wage of any other manufacturing company and everyone would want to work for him. Ford reduced a typical workday of nine hours to eight hours to create three different shifts. This...
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...Product Our business conceptualized a branched out that will be the producer of screen printed shirts in Dumaguete City Universities and hopefully for some call centers and offices. We plan to create the products not for retail purposes but as a whole sale supply catering to the needs of the targeted market for their painted shirt uniforms. Nowadays, screen-printed shirt designs are common in the market, so as the computer printed designed shirts. The latter process is commonly done in Universities such as Silliman University, Negros Oriental State University and St. Paul University for the designs though are more modern and has more quality with designs. It being an easy process to transfer a design to shirts with exclusive painted design for each compay is our unique selling proposition Our business oriented and hip designs are popular especially with the teenagers, students and the young. We come up with this product believing that we can supply the needs of consumers to have more modernized and likeable designs in its best outcome. Although we are knew in Dumaguete, we still can promise the best outcome and produce very good quality painted designed screen-painted shirts that can be used in events, organizational uniforms, school uniforms and other more occasions. The price will be based on the cost used to create the product. Our painted shirts will surely compete in the market in terms of pricing but we are confident that ours is a product is worth to be paid...
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...T-test: Salaries of Female and Male Human Resource Managers Christy Newman Argosy University T-test: Salaries of Female and Male Human Resource Managers An independent-samples t-test using the raw measurement data presented was completed to check the difference, if any, of the salaries between female and male human resource managers, t(18) = -0.408, p = 0.688, but no significant difference was found (Female Mean = 62.2; Male Mean = 63.7). The preparation for a statistical analysis test began with a well-developed, clear research question: What is the difference, if any, between the salaries of female and male HR Directors? Next, the null and alternative hypotheses must be defined. The null H₀ is that the salaries of female human resource managers = salaries of male human resource managers. The alternative Ha is that salaries of female human resource managers ≠ salaries of male human resource managers. The next step in the process is to determine the appropriate statistical test and sampling distribution. Since σ is unknown and the number of salaries being tested is less than 100, the t-test will be used. Because we are comparing data from two different groups, the two-sample t-test will be used. We do not know if the variance is different or equal, so we will use the two-tailed t-test for two-sample assuming unequal variances. Subsequently, we have to choose the Type 1 Error rate. For this t-test, α = 0.05, which is the standard rate used by statisticians for research...
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...Edward T. Hall : Cultural Dimension Introduction „A fish only realizes it needs water to live when it is no longer swimming in the water. Our culture is to us like water to the fish. We live and breathe through our culture." As Trompenaar's quote outlines, culture is a crucial part of someone's life or even indispensable for the life of humans. This is because culture determines a human's basic assumptions, values, norms and belief systems as well as a human's behaviour, language, food, drinking habits and other determinants of one's daily routine. Understanding his or her own culture is a key factor in order to live in his or her society, but understanding other cultures gives the opportunity to look out of the box. It provides someone, for example, with the ability to interact between two cultures. A vital aspect when it comes to make business upon international terms. This paper will focus on the discoveries of Edward T. Hall and will also provide especially european countries as examples. 2. Hall’s dimensions of culture Edward T. Hall, Anthropologist, developed a culture model with three dimensions. Context, the most popular dimension, Time and Space. The following paragraphs will outline and explain the three dimension. Overview of the most popular culture models HALL | HOFSTEDE | TROMPENAARS | HIGH-CONTEXT vsLOW-CONTEXT | POWER DISTANCE | UNIVERSALISM vsPARTICULARISM | | | INDIVIDUALISM vsCOLLECTIVISM | HIGH-TERRITORIALITY vs LOW-TERRITORIALITY...
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...own more than ten t-shirts in their wardrobe? That’s roughly 1.5 billion shirts – line those up end to end, and they’d circle the globe 34 times. I am going to show you ways how to fold favorite T-shirts in one quick motion. SIGNIFICANCE: Learning how to fold a T-shirt in one quick motion is fun and useful. For instance, So many people have a tendency to leave those lovely, freshly laundered T-shirts on the floor, on their bed, or draped over their chair. Those are not actually wear your clothes belong. Learning to fold T-shirts properly will help you keep them wrinkle-free and your room clean. Moreover, it’s help you to avoid to be the shooper who ruins entire T-shirt displays because he or she doesn’t know how to fold. CREDIBILITY: I have been folding T-shirts in one quick motion since my childhood. Like in most of ordinary families I always helped my mom with household errands, but folding T-shirts was my favorite. I loved it at first sight when my mom showed me this quick motion. Later, when I got married I continued practicing to fold T-shirts. Last year, when I emigrated to the USA I and my husband had to live together with my brother-in-law until we found an apartment. My brother-in law was suprised how I folded T-shirts, and wanted to learn hot to do in this way. After that, I knew that he taught his girldfriend how to fold T-shirts in one quick motion. She enjoyed it too. CENTRAL IDEA: Therefore, I am going to teach you two ways how to fold a T-shirt in one quick...
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...fifth largest wireless telecommunication companies, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. This article provides a significant details on the merger, like details of what was negotiated, how the wireless industry will looks like after the acquisition of MetroPCS by T-mobile and further more. Anton and Archibald also provided some insight on the company financial status before and after the merger, what were the negotiated terms, how the merger is going to impact the other two wireless giants, Verizon and AT&T and what consumers may expect after the merger is completed. Anton further explained that this merger will go through without any issues or concerns raised from the the regulators. T-mobile was once before was in the process of getting acquired by the wireless giant, AT&T for a well negotiated price of $39 billion dollars but that deal was shot down by the regulators. This action was felt necessary by the regulators to avoid reducing the ranks of the national carrier from four to three and to avoid monopoly. Further in the article, both authors describe some of the merger negotiated details. First, the combined company will be called T-mobile and will be ran by T-Mobile CEO John Legere, MetroPCS CEO decided that he will step down and will not hold any position in the combined company. Secondly, all customers from MetroPCS will be moved to T-Mobile network and the company will completely shut down in 2015. Third, Deutsche Telekom ( T-mobile, USA parent Company) will own 74% of the combined...
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...Eliot regarded Four Quartets as his masterpiece and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: Burnt Norton (1936), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941) and Little Giddings (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterization, each begins with a rumination on the geographical location of its title, and each meditates on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition. Each poem is associated with one of the four classical elements air, earth, water, and fire.Outline Research Paper Thesis Statement: T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying" I’m not sure what this means: "comparing and highlighting the negative facts about them. The thesis statement should be able to stand alone so you would have to elaborate T.S. Eliot wrote poems that expressed his negative views of life, the human race, and the world around him by personifying and intensifying specific aspects and metaphors in his writing. Background Information Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 Sept. 1888-4 Jan. 1965), poet, critic, and editor, was born Thomas Stearns Eliot in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Henry Ware Eliot, president of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company, and Charlotte Champed Stearns, a former teacher, an energetic social work volunteer...
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...TC cells or T cytotoxic cells have the ability to recognize kill target cells that are nonself. These target cells are self-cells that have been altered by infection with a pathogen, especially viruses such as Hepatitis B. They carry parts of endogenous antigens on its surface and are synthesized within a cell. More so, a normal cell will not trigger a response by a CTL but a virus infected cell produces abnormal endogenous antigens. The abnormal antigen attaches to the surface of the cell. In its attack, a CTL binds to the target cell and releases perforin. As a result the CTL induces destruction of the virus-infected cell by programmed cell death. 2. A patient with AIDS has a low TH cell count. Why does this patient have trouble making antibodies? How does this patient make any antibodies? Patients with AIDS have a low TH cell count because their immune system is being attacked on a constant basis. “This virus however, can also infect other cells, which include macrophages and certain other kinds of cells, which can engulf substances through a process known as phagocytosis. As a consequence of the interaction with CD4 on helper T-cells, HIV specifically infects the very cells necessary to activate both B-cell and cytotoxic T-cell immune responses. Without helper T-cells, the body cannot make antibodies properly, nor can infected cells containing HIV (an intracellular pathogen) be properly eliminated. Consequently, the virus can: multiply, kill the helper T-cell in which...
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...Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia, and after the Civil War worked in a coal mine and peregrination to school at night. Education was consequential to him, but he withal apperceive that blacks in the South had very little power: little maxima, few rights, and despite the 15th Amendment, were unable to vote. His suggestion, which he made most eminently in Atlanta and became known as the Atlanta Compromise, was that blacks get jobs in blue collar craft work and farming and edifying, which were relatively lower paying jobs. He pushed for the engenderment of agricultural and technical schools, such as Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which he founded. But by working strenuously and earning veneration, and accepting their inferior licit status for the time being, blacks would ultimately gain the reverence of whites, who would grant them more rights and sanction them to move up the economic ladder. This made Washington very popular with whites at that time, and he was even invited to dine at the White House with Teddy Roosevelt. However, in the next decades, in many ways, Washington was visually perceived as an obstruction to the civil rights kinetics, with his accentuation on slow economic gain, not pushing for rights and accommodation to the whites. While Washington was very authentic and understood the situation for blacks in the South at that time, later people visually perceived him as too inclined to compromise and keep his people down. Educator Booker T. Washington...
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...Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was a great influence for the black community. The efforts he made to become such a wonderful leader were incredible. Booker T. Washington was a man that started up from scratch. He grew up as a Black slave, who did not have many choices in life. He was born on April 5, 1856 in Virginia and he had a white father and a black mother. When he was still a child he went to work in a coal mine after the Emancipation Proclamation. When Booker was seventeen he went to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute to work as a janitor. He would then use this job to help pay for tuition and attend the school. After all of the struggles and hard work that Booker T Washington went through in his life he ended up becoming a very influential speaker and great leader for the black community. Booker T. Washington had several different qualities that made him a great leader. The first quality is that he was very charismatic. People from all over would follow Booker and listen to what he had to say. He gained a lot of attention at his Atlanta Address of 1895 where he tried to get southern whites and black slaves to work together. The black slaves would listen to the political white views and in exchange get to work weekly and get a basic education. After this is when he became a main leader for African Americans and their movement while also drawing the attention of politicians and philanthropist. Pragmatism was another quality that Booker possessed. He always...
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...Alyssa Castorena History 17B Dr. Manian 28 March 2016 Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington was born onto a slave plantation in the year 1858 or 1859. He was born in Franklin County, Virginia in an extremely small cabin that housed his mother and siblings. Washington never knew of his father, just that he was one of the white men who may have lived at one of the nearby plantations. Even though his father was never in the picture and had no desire to raise him, Washington never felt any bitterness for his father because he felt that his father was “simply another unfortunate victim of the Nation.” (Washington, 4) The cabin had no glass windows, barely a door, and no beds. They all slept on a bundle of dirty rags on the hard, wood floor. There was also no stove at the cabin, or even anywhere at the plantation. Still with no stove, Washington’s mother was the plantation cook and had to do all the cooking for the whites in the “big house” and all the slaves. She did this by cooking over an open fireplace, which in a way, aided them in the winter since it brought warmth to their cabin, but exhausted them in the summer because of the blistering summer heat. Most of Washington’s childhood was spent cleaning the plantation and hard labor, such as giving water to the men working out in the fields, or going to the mill to have the corn ground. His childhood was definitely not one that one would call “normal.” He was a slave and he knew it. But, he also knew that...
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