• US' premiere wireless carrier based on number of subscribers
• US' largest provider of broadband
• World's largest coholding company based off revenue
• Broad portfolio of complementary products and services (wireless comcations, local exchange services, long-managed networking, wholesale services and directory advertising and publishing)

 A Spin off itself The region where this industry received it's start is privately owned such that other followers have to rent or share their proprietary rites.

 
 The company at first was non compliance to environmental isssue which cost the company huge sums of dollars.
 The customer services department is not ideal and has a not educated staff in the telecommunications industry.
 

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 [*] Further particularly through its partnership with Apple/iPhone
 [*] T Mobile Merger
 %u2022 Further industry consolidation (acquisitions).
 %u2022 Wireless growth, particularly through its partnership with Apple/iPhone.
 %u2022 growth with 4G technology.
 at one time monopolized the total industry, and world wide reach as the first carrier of a long distance telephone market.
 

 ferocious competition in the wireless arena
• Emerging technologies - falling behind smaller, more nimble companies and operators
• Increasingly more price competitive industry pressuring margins
• Weather damage to antennas and transmission lines
• Goverl regulations both in the United State and in foreign countries where AT&T hopes to expand in the future
• Government blocking T Mobile merger

 It's original mission statementclaims of producing things rite in spite of the cost, and this allows more streamlined followers to control a more price conscious market.