AT&T

AT&T, which stands for American Telephone and Telegraph, is a multinational company with headquarters in Dallas, Texas at the Whitacre Tower. The company actually began as the Bell Telephone Company, which was founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880. They have 273,210 employees as of 2018, offering employment opportunities at the corporate level as well as in the content and entertainment category, government support, as well as technology and research.

The AT&T company started in 1885. Their main products and services have varied over the years as communications technology has changed. Right now, AT&T is best known for wireless service as well as for DSL Internet service. It is unclear how many customers AT&T has in total, but according to a recent company publication there are more than 400 million people in the United States and Mexico who use AT&T's 4G LTE network. The company purchased DirecTV in 2015 and is planning to rebrand under the name AT&T Entertainment.

There are more than 200 countries where AT&T offers talk, text, and data coverage. In the United States, 99 percent of Americans are covered by AT&T in one form or another. According to their most recent earnings statement, revenue is that $158.3 billion for the last fiscal year. In addition to purchasing DirecTV, AT&T also bought Time Warner for $85 billion and the company split off into four distinct units.