Editing Regional Bell Operating Company (section)

=== AT&T Inc.  ===
[[Southwestern Bell Corporation]], which changed its name to [[SBC Communications]] in 1995, acquired [[Pacific Telesis]] in 1997, [[Southern New England Telephone|SNET]] in 1998, and [[Ameritech]] in 1999. In February 2005, SBC announced its plans to acquire former parent company [[AT&T Corp.]] for over $16 billion. SBC took on the AT&T name upon merger closure on November 18, 2005.  SBC began trading as [[AT&T Inc.]] on December 1, 2005, but began re-branding as early as November 21 of the same year. In 2006 AT&T Inc. purchased [[BellSouth]].<ref>[https://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/news/companies/att_bellsouth/?postversion=2006122919 FCC wrests concessions from AT&T-BellSouth before merger - Dec. 29, 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917111027/https://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/news/companies/att_bellsouth/?postversion=2006122919 |date=2020-09-17 }}. Money.cnn.com (2006-12-29). Retrieved on 2013-09-04.</ref> In May 2025, AT&T announced an agreement to purchase Lumen Technologies' consumer connectivity business.<ref name="AttLumen">{{cite web |title=AT&T agrees to buy Lumen's consumer fiber business for $5.75 billion in cash |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/t-agrees-buy-lumens-consumer-201156731.html |website=finance.yahoo.com |access-date=May 23, 2025 |date=May 21, 2025}}</ref> This deal will incorporate [[US West]]'s residential footprint into AT&T.