SBC Communications 175 E. Houston Street San Antonio, Texas 78299
2000 Sales: $51,476,000,000
2000 Earnings: $7,967,000,000
The baby bell that has since gotten pretty big. Starting in Texas and the southwest, first it aquired Pacific Bell in 1997 giving it all of California. Now it has acquired Ameritech of Chicago giving it most of the Mid-West. It now serves 61 million customers with phone service and has combined its wireless operation with BellSouth to create Cingular for 20 million customers. :
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