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SBC to Buy AT & T; for $16 Billion

SBC Communications Inc. on Monday said it will buy AT & T; Corp. for about $16 billion, in a move to bolster its business with large companies and ending the independence of its former parent that for decades held a monopoly on the U.S. phone market.

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