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AT&T Communications, LLC — Company Profile
Overview. AT&T Communications, LLC is a Delaware limited liability company with its principal office at Whitacre Tower, 208 S. Akard Street, Dallas, Texas. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), the Dallas-based telecommunications carrier; it is not itself publicly traded and does not report separate financials. AT&T Inc. is a large-cap public company reporting roughly 133,000 employees. The "AT&T Communications" name is also used for AT&T Inc.'s telecom reporting unit, created August 1, 2017, which houses the company's Communications segment — about 97% of 2024 segment operating revenues. Note that a 2024 internal restructuring moved numerous AT&T wireline entities under AT&T Wireline Holdings, LLC.
Operations. AT&T Inc.'s Communications segment markets wireless and wireline telecom and broadband services under the AT&T, AT&T Business, Cricket, AT&T PREPAID, AT&T Fiber and AT&T Internet Air brands, organized into Mobility, Business Wireline and Consumer Wireline units. However, in a 2022 court stipulation filed in the Central District of California, AT&T represented that the legal entity AT&T Communications, LLC is "not an operating company," has no employees, and conducts no business directly with the public — indicating it serves a holding/structural role rather than operating the business. I could not independently verify its current internal function.
Litigation posture. Defendant only: 0 tracked cases as plaintiff, 1 as defendant. It is named alongside AT&T Inc., AT&T Corp., AT&T Mobility LLC, AT&T Mobility II LLC and AT&T Services Inc. — consistent with an operating-company corporate family defending an infringement suit, not a patent-assertion entity.
Notable case. Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Inc. v. AT&T Inc. et al., No. 2:24-cv-00029 (E.D. Tex., Marshall Division, filed January 19, 2024; Judge Rodney Gilstrap). Plaintiff ASSIA asserts broadband/DSL, DOCSIS and Wi-Fi management patents (including U.S. 7,428,669 and 7,809,996) developed by DSL pioneer John Cioffi; it is listed as a practicing entity in Stanford's NPE database rather than a pure NPE. AT&T filed IPR petitions (e.g., IPR2025-00395, IPR2025-00451) and sought transfer/stay based on a forum-selection clause. The Marshall Division is a plaintiff-friendly venue. ASSIA has filed parallel suits against other cable/broadband providers, including Charter Communications.