In the News: General Motors, the world's largest automaker GM brake shoes --- producer and owner of brands such as Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Daewoo, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Vauxhall - - recently awarded AT and T with $1 Billion global networking contract over five years, which is one of the largest commercial contracts in the annals of AT and T.
upon signature of the contract by both companies AT and T to General Motors, the next-generation telecommunications capabilities, and support the third generation of the automaker's information technology business model that has been made to ensure that all of GM IT suppliers to work as narrow world .
And according to Ralph Szygenda, group vice president and chief information officer of General Motors, "This will ensure that we meet the basic infrastructure for GM employees worldwide the opportunity to collaborate in real time and online, engineering, manufacturing, design and provide open supply chain."
AT and T is the integration of network management, which would cover all aspects of the GM global telecommunications infrastructure, including data and voice applications and other required support.
As part of the agreement, AT and T is also responsible for managing the operation of key regional telecommunications providers around the world. Even at the telecoms company as part of the agreement with the responsibility of the various participating telephone companies lattice delegated a standardized IT services and support guaranteed.
To support the global business of GM's strategy, AT and T will work closely with current information about the car manufacturers and services organizations. The contract between AT and T and GM expands and updates the existing global strategic relations between the two companies and continues to be reinforced with AT and T, developed by GM with a global Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution to provide the integration of the various GM locations around the world.
AT and T solution is the local, long distance, global voice mail, video conferencing, high speed Internet access and telecommunications business-continuity services composed. The network will also be a single telecommunications tools for all employees of General Motors. They are a common voice mail and conferencing capabilities plus they will go the same quality of services, regardless of whether they are stationed at headquarters in Detroit or in a factory somewhere in Australia.
AT and T is the largest provider of local and long distance telephony. In addition, wireless telecommunications services under the brand Cingular Wireless and DSL Internet access in the U.S.. The current company in San Antonio, Texas is headquartered, USA, was in 2005 by SBC Communications, which later merged with AT and T and use the AT and T moniker and the T-established stock trading symbol for the phone. Although the company is renamed as SBC, but most of its major subsidiaries were already part of AT and T before 1984. This material subsidiaries, the Bell Operating Companies and long-distance division, but ended by AT and T's lack of vertical integration and merger collapse in an anti-trust suits.