Abstract
Examines the acquisition of TeleCorp by AT&T. Defines acquisitions and mergers. Motives involved including reduction of tax liability, net worth increase, meshing of distribution systems, complementing customer bases. Firms' expectations of greater value and competitive power. Approval of acquisitions by antitrust regulators. Issue of goodwill and intangible assets.

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"AT&T WIRELESS - TELECORP PCS MERGER

This paper examines the acquisition of TeleCorp PCS by AT&T Wireless announced in October 2001 ( AT&T Wireless, to Acquire TeleCorp PCS, 2001). Acquisition is a generic term covering all forms of acquiring another firm, such as consolidation, holding company, merger, or purchase of assets with cash or stock. A merger is the combination of two or more firms. In most instances of merger, one corporation acquires the stock of another. The acquiring corporation then either retires the stock of the other corporation and dissolves the acquired corporation, or permits the acquired firm to continue operating in its own name as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Sensible motives for acquisitions and mergers are found when the positions of each company involved will be improved by the action. There are a number of ..."

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"AT&T (formerly American Telephone and Telegraph) is the world's largest telecommunications company providing services, products and systems to consumers, businesses, governments and other telecommunication companies. AT&T has the broadest, most advanced communications network in the world, and also manufactures telecommunications equipment. In addition, the company participates in the computer industry and the financial services industry. This research examines the company's marketing strategy with an emphasis on the company's entry and strategy with regard to the "information superhighway."

AT&T recognizes the importance of a diversified business structure, but all of its business segments are interrelated. The bulk of its revenues come from its telecommunication services segment (61 percent of revenues in 1992 and 59 percent in 1993), but ..."

Abstract
Through an examination of Plato's "Republic" and ""Ion" and T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" this paper attempts to compare Plato's and Eliot's views on poetry. The paper discusses how Plato saw poetry as a claim to truth that he rejected as a subjective interpretation of the world at best, falling further away from any knowledge claims with every successive interpretation. The paper then compares Plato's view with T.S. Eliot's view, which places poetry within a tradition that is informed by the past as well as the cultural present, a collectivity that mitigates the poet's subjective experiences and functions as an objective correlation between art and the world.

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"In the Ionic dialog, Plato examines the interpretation of poetry by the rhapsodes, and attempts to establish the grounds by which this interpretation is enacted. Through the character of Socrates, Plato interrogates Ion, a professional rhapsode; one who recites poetry for an audience and also interprets passages for them. Ion's ethos is established through his achievements, recently winning first prize at the festival of Asclepius at Epidaurus as well as being "crowned with a golden crown by the Homeridae" for how well he "embellished Homer". Ion proceeds to admit that, while he is an expert on Homer, he knows very little about other poets. As the poets often deal with much the same subject matter, Socrates exposes a problem with Ion's interpretation of these texts; he is not an expert qualified to critically assess the content of the works, only Homer's usage."

Tags:Republic, Ion, Tradition, Individual, Talent

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The writer discusses Henry Ford's invention of the Model T. The writer looks at the profound impact on the economy and urbanization of America. This paper examines the many facets of that impact from the creation of a middle class to the integration of the automobile into the fabric of American life.

Tags:Ford, Model T, mobilization, urbanization

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This paper is a case study of AT&T as the company goes through its third breakup in twenty years, announcing in 2000 that it would affect a breakup of its business into different units. The paper explains that this restructuring would create separate wireless, broadband, business long distance and consumer long distance companies. The paper shows how this restructuring mirrored the breakup of the Bell telephone company that produced AT&T and several other companies in the first place.

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"AT&T announced in 2000 a breakup of its business into different units, a restructuring that would create separate wireless, broadband, business long distance, and consumer long distance companies. This restructuring mirrored the breakup of the Bell telephone company that produced AT&T and several other companies in the first place. This would be the third time in two decades that the company had been forced to split into separate entities. The company was also prepared to sell off its non-strategic assets. The intent was to emerge a learner company with a clearer core business mission. Technological innovation was clearly a goal for AT&T during most of its history and the company developed a large number of new products for use in homes, offices and other sites to give the consumer access to the latest in telephonic capabilities."

Tags:at&t, case, study

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This paper presents a Strategic Fit Analysis of AT & T. It identifies AT&T's vision, analyzes the value net, develops a competitive positioning analysis and describes the grand strategies being used. The paper includes charts.

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"Few American companies have lasted as long as AT& in the market and fewer have gone through the significant changes that have characterized AT T's performance over the last years..."

Tags:AT&T, MCI, Verizon, strategic analysis

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This paper discusses the role of information and technology in a key business decision of AT&T Wireless prior to its acquisition by Cingular. The paper suggests that the decision by AT&T to retain its TDMA technology platform while its competitors upgraded their networks to more scalable alternatives that could forward integrate expanding uses of wireless traffic such as image and music files, cost it competitive advantage and ultimately its independence.

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"AT&T and TDMA Overview In 2000 SBC created a new wireless division by combining its wireless operations with those of Bellsouth to create Cingular Wireless (SBC, 2004). During 2004 Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T Wireless and transitioned that network into its own. SBC now operates as AT&T and its most recent currently available annual report is from 2004 while operations are finalized. AT&T Wireless' loss of its one-time market dominance and, indeed, its very independence, can almost be directly attributed to the faulty strategic decision to keep the TDMA technology that had been deployed for wireless service prior to its purchase of McCaw that had given it such a wide wireless network(Richman, 2004). This singular decision to employ a conservative, if not obviously antiquated technology platform would prove disastrous as the wireless market continued to expand rapidly in the new millennium."

Tags:at&t, tdma, technology

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This paper gives a detailed analysis of AT&T, their management style, product development, and organizational and business strategies. This paper also discusses AT&T's promotional strategies and sales growth.

Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Mission Statement
Distinctive Competencies
Trends and Conditions in the Marketplace
Organizational Objectives and Accomplishments
Strategic Business Units
Boston Consulting Group Matrix
Organizational Strategy for Growth
Increase/Decrease in Sales
Elements of the Marketing Strategy
Elements of the Marketing Plan

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"AT&T is a telecommunications company that serves the wireless and wireline sector of the U.S. as well as businesses throughout the world. Their primary business units include wireless voice and data service offered through the segment of AT&T mobility. The wireline segment of AT&T provides local and long-distance landline phone service, AT&T U-verse television, high speed internet, and messaging to consumers. They also provide managed networking, landline, and internet connectivity to businesses. AT&T also operates an advertising and publishing segment through their directory operations sector."

Tags:marketing, ten point analysis, AT&T companies distribution business, product development

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This paper discusses what can be learned from all the mistakes made by AT&T during its downsizing efforts in the mid-1990s. The paper describes and analyzes the downsizing, the blunders made during the downsizing, and the consequences of those blunders. In addition, the paper looks at AT&T's attempts to recover from its blunders and, more specifically, what we can learn from the entire event. The paper concludes that the results of downsizing can never be guaranteed and that, notwithstanding employee morale, even from the perspective of productivity and efficiency and profit, downsizing isn't legitimized.

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"Indeed, AT&T is a bad case of not knowing when to stop (and when to walk away a winner). The American Management Association suggested that when companies don't meet their goals during the first round of downsizing, they try to make good by downsizing again. But AT&T's second cutback stemmed more from greed (over-confidence brought about by the first cutback's success) than from failure. Karma hit AT&T so bad that it received a different sort of response: a sharp decline in stock price brought about by investor anxiety. Truly, there was much to worry about the breadth and pace of the planned layoffs."

Tags:legitimacy, lean-and-mean strategy, greed, productivity losses, shared sacrifice

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This paper is about the acquisition of Telecorp by AT&T. It analyzes the accounting method used to record the transaction and the circumstances or transaction attributes that support the accounting method. The paper evaluates the structure of the merger transaction, and comments on the managerial and financial synergies of the combination, and the expected effect on expected revenues and costs, and the effect of the transaction on the stock prices of the companies involved. It reviews the tax effects of the merger, and looks at changes in stock price after the merger was announced

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"TeleCorp PCS Inc is in a joint venture with AT T Wireless Services to build and operate digital wireless networks. TeleCorp is AT T Wireless' largest affiliate with licenses to serve more than million people in ten states..."

Tags:Acquisition Telecorp AT&T, stock acquisition transaction, SEC, 8-k, Form 10-K, accounting method, merger, consolidation, managerial and financial synergies, expected revenues and costs, stock prices, tax effects