AT&T
American multinational telecommunications holding company
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| September 2024 | Former AT&T Illinois President Paul La Schiazza is scheduled to go on trial for the alleged bribery scheme involving Michael J. Madigan. |
| September 30 2024 | AT&T announced selling its remaining 70% stake in DirecTV to TPG. |
| September 18 2024 | The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined AT&T $13 million for a major data breach that exposed millions of customers' personal information. The fine was imposed due to AT&T's failure to implement adequate cybersecurity measures and delay in notifying affected individuals. As part of the settlement, AT&T was required to improve data protection practices and provide identity theft protection to impacted customers. |
| July 2024 | AT&T reported its largest data breach to date, potentially affecting around 110 million customers, with plans to notify those impacted. |
| March 2024 | AT&T confirmed the 2021 data leak, leading to multiple class-action lawsuits due to the extensive personal information exposed. |
| February 22 2024 | AT&T experienced a massive cellular service disruption across the United States, preventing millions of customers from connecting to the cellular network and blocking emergency service calls. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security launched investigations into the potential cyber attack, while AT&T attributed the blackout to a server update. Users received service credits, and the incident prompted an FCC investigation in March. |
| December 2022 | AT&T agreed to pay $6.25 million in fines to settle the SEC lawsuit, with individual executives also being fined $25,000 each, without acknowledging guilt. |
| October 2022 | AT&T agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal criminal investigation into unlawful attempts to influence Michael J. Madigan, entering into a deferred prosecution agreement with the US Department of Justice for arranging payments to Madigan's ally. |
| April 8 2022 | The spinoff of WarnerMedia and its merger with Discovery, Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery was completed. |
| 2021 | Reuters published an investigative report exposing AT&T's role in creating, funding, and sustaining One America News Network (OAN), a controversial far-right TV network known for promoting conspiracy theories. |
| 2021 | A data leak occurred exposing contact information for over 7.6 million current users and 65 million former users, including sensitive personal details such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers. |
| December 21 2021 | AT&T announced the sale of Xandr (and AppNexus) to Microsoft. |
| December 10 2021 | AT&T Mexico announced its intention to launch a 5G NR network using 2.5 GHz spectrum, becoming the first mobile network operator in the country to build an NR network. |
| August 2 2021 | The DirecTV spinoff deal with TPG Capital was closed. |
| May 17 2021 | AT&T announced plans to merge WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc. to establish a new media company. |
| March 2021 | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against AT&T and three of its executives for violating the Fair Disclosure Rule by making selective disclosures to analysts. |
| February 25 2021 | AT&T announced spinning off DirecTV, U-Verse TV, and DirecTV Stream into a separate entity, selling a 30% stake to TPG Capital while retaining 70%. |
| 2020 | AT&T concludes technical support and sponsorship of Red Bull Racing Formula One racing team. |
| 2020 | An OAN accountant provided sworn testimony revealing that 90% of the network's revenue came from AT&T, highlighting the telecommunications company's significant financial support for the far-right news network. |
| 2020 | AT&T paid $48 million to settle a lawsuit with 30 government entities under the California False Claims Act, relating to allegations of not providing services at the lowest cost available. The company denied any wrongdoing in the settlement. |
| December 2020 | Crunchyroll was sold to Sony's Funimation, with the acquisition closing in August 2021. |
| December 31 2020 | AT&T reported total CO2e emissions at 5,788 kilotonnes, representing an 11.3% year-over-year reduction from the previous year. |
| November 2020 | AT&T Dial services were terminated. |
| October 2020 | AT&T stopped selling new DSL connections, beginning to phase out outdated services. At mid-2020, the company had about 650,000 total DSL connections. |
| May 2020 | HBO Max streaming service was launched. |
| April 24 2020 | AT&T announced that John Stankey would replace Randall L. Stephenson as CEO, effective July 1, 2020, acknowledging a massive $200 billion debt burden from previous acquisitions. |
| April 3 2020 | AT&T announced that U-verse TV would no longer be available to new customers, with new customers receiving AT&T TV for TV service. |
| 2019 | AT&T rolled out a 100% Fiber Network Powered by AT&T Fiber Live in 84 Metro areas. |
| 2019 | The Synacor deal was ended, and the contract was awarded to Verizon Communications, which had previously purchased Yahoo!. The 'Currently from AT&T' branding was introduced. |
| 2019 | AT&T Mexico shut down its GSM network. |
| 2019 | Concluded the financial year with revenues of $181.2 billion and a net income of $13.90 billion, showcasing continued corporate growth. |
| 2019 | Democratic House Judiciary requests White House records related to the AT&T-Time Warner merger. |
| August 2019 | In selected markets, AT&T began replacing AT&T U-verse TV with a new service based on its DirecTV Now platform, AT&T TV. |
| March 2019 | AT&T begins sponsorship of esports team Cloud9. |
| 2018 | AT&T Mexico acquired spectrum in 2.6 GHz IMT-E and 3.5 GHz C-band frequencies through an auction. |
| 2018 | AT&T invested an additional $3 billion to expand high-speed mobile broadband coverage to 100 million people in Mexico. |
| 2018 | Andre Fuetsch assumes the role of president and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of AT&T Labs, continuing the organization's technological leadership. |
| 2018 | Jeff McElfresh becomes president of AT&T Technology & Operations, taking a leadership role in the company's technological division. |
| 2018 | AT&T successfully defeated an amendment to a bill regarding fees for small cell tower attachments that would have been harmful to the company's interests, with Madigan's help. |
| July 19 2018 | AT&T begins sponsorship of Club América football team. |
| June 12 2018 | Proposed merger with Time Warner is confirmed, and Time Warner is rebranded as WarnerMedia. |
| May 10 2018 | Washington Post documents confirm 12 monthly payments to Cohen, which AT&T subsequently confirms on the same day. |
| May 8 2018 | Initial reports emerge about AT&T's payments to Michael Cohen, initially suggesting four monthly payments totaling $200,000. |
| 2017 | AT&T Mexico shut down its IDEN network. |
| 2017 | AT&T attempted to influence Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan's vote on legislation to eliminate the company's 'Carrier of Last Resort' obligation, which would save the company millions of dollars in landline telephone service requirements. |
| 2017 | Recorded an impressive net income of $29.85 billion, the highest in the data range presented. |
| November 20 2017 | The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a lawsuit to block the Time Warner merger, arguing it would harm competition. |
| June 30 2017 | AT&T email accounts ceased to automatically function as Yahoo accounts. |
| April 25 2017 | AT&T reported a loss of 233,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2017. |
| February 15 2017 | Time Warner shareholders approved the merger with AT&T. |
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