Credibility Statement: AT&T is one of the four biggest phone services in America. In 2016, the company generated 163.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenue. In 2016, the company employed approximately 269 thousand people and had over 134 million connections across its wireless service.
Audience Connection: If you do have AT&T as your phone service, you can learn more about the company that you pay your phone bill to every month.
Thesis & Main Point Preview: So today, I would like to share in-detailed information about AT&T, including the origin of the company, the current state of the company, and the future outlook of the company.
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Main Point #1: To start, I would like to inform you about the origin of the company: who founded it, how it
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Sub-Sub point #1: The forming of AT&T came after Alexander Bell invented the telephone in 1876 and then created “The Bell Telephone Company” in 1877.
Sub-Sub point #2: AT&T was originally the subdivision company until it bought all of the assets of “The Bell Telephone Company” and became the parent company.
Sub Point #2: AT&T was at first operated as a monopoly until 1984 where everything changed.
Sub-Sub point #1: According to CNN, a civil antitrust suit with the Justice Department was settled in 1984 involving AT&T.
Sub-Sub point #2: It was split up into several departments, but AT&T still retained the rights to some of the company and maintained a communications services company.
B. Main Point #2: Secondly, we will talk about the current state of the company: the deals that AT&T are making to improve the company and the management behind it all.
Sub Point #1: AT&T is set to takeover Time Warner Inc. for about 85 billion dollars.
Sub-Sub point #1: According to The Wall Street Journal, AT&T plans to generate extra advertising revenue through increased commercials on Time Warner’s Turner
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