It's not every day that a giant telecommunications company buys the leading satellite television provider.
AT&T, the company with roots all the way back to telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, is now set to become a major part of the pay television industry. It already has a major wireless operation and a burgeoning Internet offering.
The addition of television makes it one of the most diverse communications companies in the United States. Let's take a look at some of the numbers to give us an idea of just how big a united AT&T and DirecTV would be.
Credit: Bob Al-Greene