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Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026

AT & T; Buying BellSouth for $67B

AT & T; Inc. said it would buy BellSouth Corp. for $67 billion to acquire the rest of Cingular Wireless it does not already own, and expand into the southeastern United States to gain heft to battle growing competition from cable television and Internet companies.


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