SBC Telecom

{{Short description|US telecom corporation}}

{{Infobox company |

name = SBC Telecom, Inc.|

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type = Private (Subsidiary of AT&T)|

| fate = Merged by AT&T

| location = San Antonio, TX, United States|

key_people = Lee Ann Champion, President|

industry = Telecommunications|

num_employees = |

products = Local Telephone Service|

revenue = |

homepage = |

}}

SBC Telecom, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Small Business is an American CLEC owned by AT&T that offers local telephone service outside the AT&T Bell Operating Company regions.{{Cite web|date=2018-06-13|title=98 companies AT&T-Time Warner will own after the $85 billion merger|url=https://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/here-are-all-the-companies-att-time-warner-will-own-after-the-merger-2|access-date=2021-05-26|website=Big Think|language=en}}{{better source needed|date=December 2024|reason=obvious copy-and-paste from the Wikipedia article, so it's citogenesis at best. It also contains clearly outdated info so as a source is useless}} It was formed in 1999 following provisions that required SBC Communications to offer telephone service outside its boundaries in order to get approval to merge with Ameritech.{{Cite web|title=SBC Telecom Inc|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0764899D:US|access-date=2021-05-26|website=bloomberg.com}}

SBC Telecom is a separate company from Southwestern Bell Telecom, Inc., which was formed in 1984 as a separate subsidiary from Southwestern Bell to sell telephone equipment.