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AT&T Labs

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Research and development division of AT&T

AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly AT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including Bedminster, New Jersey; Middletown, New Jersey; Manhattan, New York; Warrenville, Illinois; Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; San Ramon, California; and Redmond, Washington. The main research division, made up of around 450 people, is based across the Bedminster, Middletown, San Francisco, and Manhattan locations.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

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AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly AT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including Bedminster, New Jersey; Middletown, New Jersey; Manhattan, New York; Warrenville, Illinois; Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; San Ramon, California; and Redmond, Washington. The main research division, made up of around 450 people, is based across the Bedminster, Middletown, San Francisco, and Manhattan locations.2

The story

AT&T Laboratories, Inc., known informally as AT&T Labs, was founded in 1996, as a result of the split of AT&T Bell Laboratories into separate R&D organizations supporting AT&T Corporation and Lucent Technologies. Lucent retained the name Bell Labs and AT&T adopted the name AT&T Laboratories for its R&D organization.

AT&T Labs also traces its origin to Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, Inc. (SWB TRI) which was founded in 1988 as the R&D arm of Southwestern Bell Corporation. It had no connection to Bellcore, the R&D organization owned equally by all of the Baby Bells.

In 1995, Southwestern Bell Corporation renamed itself SBC Communications, Inc., resulting in the subsequent name changes of companies such as SWB TRI to SBC Technology Resources, Inc. (SBC TRI).

In 2003, SBC TRI changed its name to SBC Laboratories, Inc.. SBC Laboratories focused on four core areas: Broadband Internet, Wireless Systems, Network Services, and Network IT.

In 2005, SBC Communications and AT&T Corporation merged to form AT&T. AT&T Labs, Inc. became the new name of the combined SBC Laboratories, Inc. and AT&T Laboratories along with its research facilities in New Jersey.

In 2006, BellSouth Telecommunications Science and Technology (S&T) was also merged with AT&T Labs. BellSouth Science and Technology had offices in Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.

From Wikipedia’s article on AT&T Labs, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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