AT&T

Description

AT&T is the industry-leading provider of wireline voice communications services in the US. The company provides telephone as well as internet access to customers in 22 states; key markets include California, Illinois, and Texas. It is also a top provider of IP-voice and digital video services. AT&T provides services internationally through its subsidiaries and affliates. The company serves corporate and government clients with an extensive range of data, managed network, and wholesale services. AT&T is the nation's second largest wireless carrier by both sales and subscriptions (after Verizon Wireless) through subsidiary AT&T Mobility, which provides mobile voice and data services to about 77 million subscribers.

Sprint

Description

Running to keep up in an ever-changing telecom race, Sprint Nextel is the result of a marriage of two leading US wireless companies. The combination of #3 carrier Sprint with former #5 Nextel Communications has created a wireless giant that aspires to take on Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. Sprint Nextel, the leading local phone company in the US without a Baby Bell lineage, operates a nationwide digital wireless network with more than 40 million subscribers. It also provides cellular access on a wholesale basis to other carriers. The company's smaller wireline business provides long-distance voice, Internet, and data network services primarily to corporate customers and other communications carriers.