AT&T* today announced the 2009 AT&T Supplier Award winners, who are being recognized for their outstanding performance and service to AT&T affiliates during the past year.

The AT&T Supplier Award program annually honors suppliers, who provide products or services that support AT&T operations, for their contributions across a broad scope of selection criteria, including: supplier diversity results, creative cost management solutions, teamwork, customer service, product/service performance and sustainability.

“AT&T’s Supplier Award program acknowledges the contribution of its strategic suppliers by highlighting those who have added significant value to AT&T, and who have far exceeded expectations in supplier relations,” said Tim Harden, president of AT&T Supply Chain and Fleet Operations. “These suppliers play a vital role in helping AT&T deliver the services, value and innovation necessary to serve our residential and business customers and to maintain our company’s leadership position in today’s competitive and dynamic global marketplace.”

This year, AT&T is recognizing six suppliers that went above and beyond in providing AT&T with better products, superior services, enhanced cost structures or best-in-class approaches that contributed to the company’s success during the past year.

AT&T uses more than 5,000 companies as major suppliers for materials and services. As part of the annual program, the company took out a half-page ad in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal to publicly thank the selected companies.

AT&T 2009 Supplier Award Winners

• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Javelin Direct Inc.
• Juniper Networks, Inc.
• Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC
• Southwest Research Institute^®
• Telamon Corporation

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates – AT&T operating companies – are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s fastest 3G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet and voice services. AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse^SM and AT&T | DIRECTV^SM brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T’s Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations are known for their leadership in directory publishing and advertising sales. In 2009, AT&T again ranked No. 1 in the telecommunications industry on FORTUNE^® magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com.

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