![Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: (See
attached Schedule A)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None.
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known
seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file
reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes [
] No [X]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all
reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that
the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has
been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted
electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any,
every Interactive Data File required to
be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T
during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that
the registrant was required to
submit and post such files). Yes [X] No [ ]
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers
pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein,
and will not be contained, to the best
of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information
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![K or any amendment to this Form
10-K. [ X ]
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large
accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or
a smaller reporting company. See
definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and
"smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
Act.
Large accelerated filer [X] Accelerated filer [ ]
Non-accelerated filer [ ] Smaller reporting company [ ]
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell
company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes [ ] No [X]
Based on the closing price of $35.52 per share on June 30,
2015, the aggregate market value of our voting and non-voting
common stock held by non-
affiliates was $184 billion.
At February 10, 2016, common shares outstanding were
6,151,208,898.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
(1) Portions of AT&T Inc.'s Annual Report to Stockholders for
the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 (Parts I and II).
(2) Portions of AT&T Inc.'s Notice of 2016 Annual Meeting and
Proxy Statement dated on or about March 11, 2016 to be filed
within the period permitted
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FORM 10-KUNITED STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.docx
- 1. FORM 10-K UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 (Mark One) ☒☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 OR ☐☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from to Commission File Number: 1-8610 AT&T INC. Incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware I.R.S. Employer Identification Number 43-1301883 208 S. Akard St., Dallas, Texas, 75202 Telephone Number 210-821-4105
- 2. Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: (See attached Schedule A) Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None. Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes [X] No [ ] Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes [ ] No [X] Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes [X] No [ ] Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes [X] No [ ] Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-
- 3. K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [ X ] Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. Large accelerated filer [X] Accelerated filer [ ] Non-accelerated filer [ ] Smaller reporting company [ ] (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes [ ] No [X] Based on the closing price of $35.52 per share on June 30, 2015, the aggregate market value of our voting and non-voting common stock held by non- affiliates was $184 billion. At February 10, 2016, common shares outstanding were 6,151,208,898. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE (1) Portions of AT&T Inc.'s Annual Report to Stockholders for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2015 (Parts I and II). (2) Portions of AT&T Inc.'s Notice of 2016 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement dated on or about March 11, 2016 to be filed within the period permitted under General Instruction G(3) (Parts III and IV).
- 4. SCHEDULE A Securities Registered Pursuant To Section 12(b) Of The Act: Name of each exchange Title of each class on which registered Common Shares (Par Value $1.00 Per Share) New York Stock Exchange 5.875% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due April 28, 2017 New York Stock Exchange Floating Rate AT&T Inc. Global Notes due June 4, 2019 New York Stock Exchange 1.875% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due December 4, 2020 New York Stock Exchange 2.65% AT&T Inc.
- 5. Global Notes due December 17, 2021 New York Stock Exchange 1.45% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due June 1, 2022 New York Stock Exchange 2.50% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due March 15, 2023 New York Stock Exchange 1.30% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due September 5, 2023 New York Stock Exchange 2.40% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due March 15, 2024 New York Stock Exchange 3.50% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due December 17,
- 6. 2025 New York Stock Exchange 2.60% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due December 17, 2029 New York Stock Exchange 3.55% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due December 17, 2032 New York Stock Exchange 3.375% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due March 15, 2034 New York Stock Exchange 2.45% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due March 15, 2035 New York Stock Exchange 7.00% AT&T Inc.
- 7. Global Notes due April 30, 2040 New York Stock Exchange 4.25% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due June 1, 2043 New York Stock Exchange 4.875% AT&T Inc. Global Notes due June 1, 2044 New York Stock Exchange TABLE OF CONTENTS Item Page PART I 1. Business 1 1A. Risk Factors 12 2. Properties 14 3. Legal Proceedings 14 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 14 Executive Officers of the Registrant 15 PART II
- 8. 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 16 6. Selected Financial Data 17 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 17 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk 17 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 17 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 17 9A. Controls and Procedures 17 9B. Other Information 18 PART III 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 18 11. Executive Compensation 18 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
- 9. 18 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence 19 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 19 PART IV 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 19 AT&T Inc. PART I ITEM 1. BUSINESS GENERAL AT&T Inc. ("AT&T," "we" or the "Company") is a holding company incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware in 1983 and has its principal executive offices at 208 S. Akard St., Dallas, Texas, 75202 (telephone number 210-821-4105). We maintain an Internet website at www.att.com. (This website address is for information only and is not intended to be an active link or to incorporate any website information into this document.) We make available, free of charge, on our website our annual report on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K
- 10. and all amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We also make available on that website, and in print, if any stockholder or other person so requests, our "Code of Ethics" applicable to all employees and Directors, our "Corporate Governance Guidelines," and the charters for all committees of our Board of Directors, including Audit, Human Resources and Corporate Governance and Nominating. Any changes to our Code of Ethics or waiver of our Code of Ethics for senior financial officers, executive officers or Directors will be posted on that website. History AT&T, formerly known as SBC Communications Inc. (SBC), was formed as one of several regional holding companies created to hold AT&T Corp.'s (ATTC) local telephone companies. On January 1, 1984, we were spun- off from ATTC pursuant to an anti-trust consent decree, becoming an independent publicly- traded telecommunications services provider. At formation, we primarily operated in five southwestern states. Our subsidiaries merged with Pacific Telesis Group in 1997, Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation in 1998 and Ameritech Corporation in 1999, thereby expanding our wireline operations as the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) into a total of 13 states. In November 2005, one of our subsidiaries merged with ATTC, creating one of the world's leading telecommunications providers. In connection with the merger, we changed the name of our company from "SBC Communications Inc." to "AT&T Inc." In December 2006, one of our subsidiaries merged with BellSouth Corporation (BellSouth) making us the
- 11. ILEC in an additional nine states. With the BellSouth acquisition, we also acquired BellSouth's 40 percent economic interest in AT&T Mobility LLC (AT&T Mobility), formerly Cingular Wireless LLC, resulting in 100 percent ownership of AT&T Mobility. In 2014, we completed the acquisition of wireless provider Leap Wireless International, Inc. (Leap) and sold our ILEC operations in Connecticut, which we had previously acquired in 1998. In 2015, we completed acquisitions of wireless properties in Mexico and DIRECTV, a leading provider of digital television entertainment services in both the United States and Latin America. Our services and products are marketed under the AT&T, Cricket, DIRECTV, SKY, Iusacell, Unefon and Nextel Mexico brand names. Scope We are a leading provider of communications and digital entertainment services in the United States and the world. We offer our services and products to consumers in the U.S., Mexico and Latin America and to businesses and other providers of telecommunications services worldwide. We also own and operate three regional sports networks, and retain non-controlling interests in another regional sports network and a network dedicated to game-related programming as well as Internet interactive game playing. The services and products that we offer vary by market, and include: wireless communications, data/broadband and Internet services, digital video services, local and long-distance telephone services, telecommunications equipment, managed networking, and wholesale services. In conjunction with our July 24, 2015 acquisition of DIRECTV, we re-organized our operating
- 12. subsidiaries as follows, corresponding to our operating segments for financial reporting purposes: · Business Solution s business units provide services to business, governmental and wholesale customers and individual subscribers who purchase wireless services through employer-sponsored plans. We provide advanced IP-based services including Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Ethernet-related products and broadband, collectively referred to as strategic business services, as well as traditional data and voice products. We utilize our wireless and wired network and are marketed to provide a complete communications solution to our business customers. · Entertainment Group business units provide video, internet and voice communication services to residential customers located in the U.S. or in U.S. territories. We utilize our copper and IP-based (referred to as "wired" or "wireline") network and/or our satellite technology.
- 13. · Consumer Mobility business units provide nationwide wireless service to consumers, and wireless wholesale and resale subscribers located in the U.S. or in U.S. territories. We utilize our U.S. wireless network to provide voice and data services, including high speed internet, video entertainment and home monitoring services. 1 AT&T Inc. · International business units provide entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. Video entertainment services are provided to primarily residential customers using satellite technology. We utilize our regional and national networks in Mexico to provide consumer and business customers with wireless data and voice communication services.
- 14. Our Corporate and Other information includes unallocated corporate expenses, operations that are no longer integral to our operations or which we no longer actively market, our portion of results from our equity investments and impacts from corporate-wide decisions for which the individual operating segments are not being evaluated. With continuing advances in technology and in response to changing demands from our customers, in recent years we have focused on providing broadband, video and voice services. In 2015, we purchased DIRECTV to expand our involvement in the digital entertainment space. The nationwide reach of DIRECTV and superior content-owner relationships significantly improves the economics and expands the geographic reach of our pre- existing AT&T U-verse® video service. We also purchased wireless operations in Mexico, moving quickly to build a world-class mobile business in a country with a strong economic outlook, a growing middle class and close trade, cultural and geographic ties to the U.S. These acquisitions and our continued investment in a premier network experience make our customers' lives more convenient
- 15. and productive and foster competition and further innovation in the communications and entertainment industry. In 2016, we plan to focus on the areas discussed below. Wireless AT&T Mobility began operations in October 2000 as a joint venture between us and BellSouth and, in 2004, acquired AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. Upon our acquisition of BellSouth in 2006, AT&T Mobility became a wholly-owned subsidiary. In the United States, we now cover all major metropolitan areas and more than 300 million people with our LTE technology. We also provide 4G coverage using another technology (HSPA+), and when combined with our upgraded backhaul network, we are able to enhance our network capabilities and provide superior mobile broadband speeds for data and video services. Our wireless network also relies on other GSM digital transmission technologies for 3G and 2G data communications. As of December 31, 2015, we served more than 128 million subscribers. As the wireless industry continues to mature, we believe that
- 16. future wireless growth will increasingly depend on our ability to offer innovative video and data services and a wireless network that has sufficient spectrum and capacity to support these innovations. We continue to face significant spectrum and capacity constraints on our wireless network in certain markets. We expect such constraints to increase and expand to additional markets in the coming years. While we are continuing to invest significant capital in expanding our network capacity, our capacity constraints could affect the quality of existing voice and data services and our ability to launch new, advanced wireless broadband services, unless we are able to obtain more spectrum. Any long-term spectrum solution will require that the FCC make additional spectrum available to the wireless industry to meet the expanding needs of our subscribers. We will continue to attempt to address spectrum and capacity constraints on a market-by-market basis. To that end, we submitted winning bids for 251 Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) spectrum licenses for a near-nationwide contiguous block of high-quality AWS spectrum in the AWS-3 Auction (FCC Auction 97). The FCC announced that the 600 MHz Auction (Auction 1000) is scheduled to begin on March 29, 2016.
- 17. Also as part of our efforts to improve our network performance and help address the need for additional spectrum capacity, we are redeploying spectrum currently used for basic 2G services to support more advanced mobile Internet services on our 3G and 4G networks. We are managing this process consistent with previous network upgrades and are transitioning customers on a market-by-market basis from 2G networks to our more advanced 3G and 4G networks. We expect to fully discontinue service on our 2G networks by approximately January 1, 2017. As of December 31, 2015, about 1 percent of AT&T's postpaid subscribers used handsets only capable of using 2G services. We do not expect this transition to have a material impact on our operating results. Business