Stock price AT&T Inc (T) today

AT&T Inc. is the world's largest telecommunications company and one of the largest media conglomerates. The largest telephony provider in the United States. One of the largest mobile operators, the fourth most expensive brand in the world. The main provider of direct satellite broadcasting in the United States (DirecTV). The American Telephone and Telegraph Company was founded as a subsidiary of Bell Telephone Company in 1883. The main task was to build long-distance telephone lines. In 1899, AT&T bought its own parent company and in 1907 began to buy competing companies, pr connecting to their network In addition to working on expanding telephone networks, the company opened Bell Telephone Laboratories, branches for inventing new technologies, where they created transistors and photocells, radio astronomy, and the programming languages ​​Unix and C. In the 1920s and 1930s, the company creates a radiotelephone connection with Europe and Asia.In 1962, the first commercial communications satellite Telstar was launched with the participation of AT&T. In 1982, AT&T was divided into a number of smaller companies. The name AT&T remained with the company providing long-distance telecommunications services, which continued the expansion practice by absorbing other companies. In 1995, AT&T was again divided, already into three independent companies: Lucent Technologies, NCR Corporation and the communications company that retained the name AT&T. In 2005, it merged with SBC Communications, becoming the largest telecommunications company in the United States. In 2015, the company bought DirecTV for $ 48.5 billion. In 2018, the Time Warner conglomerate was bought for $ 85 billion, which was one of the biggest deals in history.