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Connecting Changes Everything (and it always has)

“Connecting Changes Everything.” At AT&T, that isn’t just a line – it’s our calling. For 150 years, connecting people has been at the heart of what we do. Next month, we’ll celebrate a pivotal milestone: 150 years since our founder, Alexander Graham Bell, made the first phone call.  His startup, Bell Telephone Company, was created a year later, and eventually became American Telephone & Telegraph. When you look across that full arc of history, the transformation is remarkable. What began with a single…