{"id":14451,"date":"2018-01-31T23:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master-3\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T23:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:22:49","slug":"sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/sbc-buys-att-the-learner-becomes-the-master-3\/","title":{"rendered":"SBC Buys AT&amp;T; The Learner Becomes the Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-658\" title=\"AT&amp;T Logos\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Logos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6973f__ATT_logos-154x300.gif\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" \/>January 31, 2005<\/p>\n<p>SBC announced that it would purchase\u00a0<a title=\"AT&amp;T Corp.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AT%26T_Corp.\">AT&amp;T Corp.<\/a> for more than $  16 billion. This completed (maybe) the long and sordid tale of the old AT&amp;T company after their breakup in 1984. SBC, one of the original &#8220;baby bells&#8221;, renamed itself AT&amp;T after the merger, confusing nearly everyone in the world as to which company was which anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/31\/sbc-buys-at-the-learner-becomes-the-master\/\">SBC Buys AT&#038;T; The Learner Becomes the Master<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/31\/sbc-buys-at-the-learner-becomes-the-master\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 31, 2005 SBC announced that it would purchase\u00a0AT&amp;T Corp. for more than $ 16 billion. This completed (maybe) the long and sordid tale of the old AT&amp;T company after their breakup in 1984. SBC, one of the original &#8220;baby bells&#8221;, renamed itself AT&amp;T after the merger, confusing nearly everyone in the world as to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[4142,3120,414,3119,3121],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-att","tag-becomes","tag-buys","tag-learner","tag-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}