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New features for the AT&T Telepresence Solution and the acquisition of Wi-Fi service provider Wayport, Inc., capped a successful fourth quarter 2008 for AT&T Business Solutions (ABS). These accomplishments, as well as key sales wins and enhancements to its business services portfolio, helped the business unit enter 2009 on firm footing.

The enhancements to the AT&T Telepresence Solution, based on Cisco TelePresence technology, now provide unique multipoint functionality and highly secure intercompany capabilities that allow users at multiple locations and from different companies to connect with each other. These new capabilities represent the latest milestone in ABS's efforts to provide customers with powerful and cost-effective collaboration tools while helping decrease costs associated with business travel.

Also during the fourth quarter 2008, AT&T announced two acquisitions to expand its wireless mobility capabilities. The acquisition of Wayport a... more

AT&T Business Solutions today announced that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned it in the Leaders Quadrant in their latest report for global network service providers¹.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant report offers a visual snapshot of a market's direction, maturity and participants. In the report, Gartner evaluates vendors of global network service providers on the basis of completeness of vision and ability to execute.

AT&T Business Solutions was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in the recently published reports for Pan European² and U.S. based³ network service providers.

"We are delighted with our position in the Leaders Quadrant in the Global, Pan European and U.S. based Network Service Providers reports. We believe this reaffirms our continued investment in and commitment to the global marketplace. AT&T Business Solutions provides a comprehensive portfolio of services that harnesses our IP leader... more

AT&T Business Solutions announced today that Fujitsu in North America has signed a two-year contract for a fully managed Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) and Integration Solutions supporting a High Definition Telepresence system.

AT&T Integration Solutions portfolio will provide Fujitsu with a complete networking and equipment design for Telepresence along with global project management of its AT&T system implementation and testing between Sunnyvale, Calif., and Kawasaki, Japan.

Fujitsu, which considers the green impact in all that it does, has been deeply committed to safeguarding the environment for current and future generations. As such, the two Telepresence sites supported by the AT&T IP VPN — in Sunnyvale and Kawasaki — will reduce the amount of travel required by Fujitsu employees, while allowing more frequent interaction and maintaining the same level of collaboration needed between the two sites. The AT&T sol... more

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that the company has been ranked No. 1 among DiversityBusiness.com's 2008 list of the Top Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities, also known as the Div50.

This is the third straight year AT&T has topped the list; the company has been included in the overall list every year since its inception nine years ago. AT&T will be honored at a special awards ceremony at DiversityBusiness.com's Multicultural Business Conference in late April.

This year's Div50 was selected with help from more than 650,000 minority- and women-owned businesses in the U.S. that represent sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service and professional services. The award is based on such factors as the volume, consistency and quality of business opportunities that a company grants to women- and minority-owned suppliers. It is a leading indicator of which organizations provide the best and the most business for diversity-owne... more

AT&T U-verse is using the latest technology to revolutionize what Greater Los Angeles area consumers can do with their home phones. AT&T California today announced the availability of AT&T U-verseSM Voice in parts of Greater Los Angeles, bringing consumers a next-generation digital voice service delivered over the AT&T U-verse Internet Protocol (IP) network.

U-verse Voice, combined with wireless, broadband and TV services — all on one bill — gives consumers a quad-play of services with unique features that provide a new level of integration, convenience and control.

AT&T U-verse Voice is available to all eligible U-verse TV customers in the Greater Los Angeles. With U-verse Voice, customers receive new features that highlight the benefits of having advanced video, broadband, wireless and home phone services from a single provider.

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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced that it has achieved a major milestone in its program to move some 5,000 high-tech jobs that had previously been outsourced back to the payrolls of AT&T's U.S. operating companies. The vast majority of the jobs had been placed offshore by contract vendors.

The company has met its goal of bringing back on shore and in-house more than 3,000 jobs that previously had been outsourced by BellSouth outside the U.S., and it met its goal of completing this repatriation before the end of 2008. The bulk of these jobs are now located in broadband support centers in North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Kentucky, with most of the others scattered across states in the Southeast. Separately, the company is more than halfway toward its goal of bringing back another 2,000 outsourced jobs to locations in the former SBC territory; states where these jobs have been located include Indiana, Texas, Nevada, Michigan and Arkansas. Most of the jobs pro... more