AT&T is an American multinational conglomerate. It is the world's largest telecommunications company, the largest provider of mobile telephone services, and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States through AT&T Communications. Since June 2018, it is also the parent company of mass media conglomerate Warner Media.

In 2007, AT&T bought Interwise, the Israeli IP-network conferencing solutions startup, now known as AT&T Israel R&D Center, bringing AT&T into the Israeli ecosystem for the first time.

Since then, AT&T Israel R&D Center is involved and develops products in all strategic areas of AT&T including advanced networking, media & entertainment, digital user experience, advertising, IoT, data science & AI and cybersecurity.

In addition, AT&T has an innovation center in Israel called AT&T Foundry Innovation Center. The Foundry provides startups with access to AT&Ts resources and connects engineers, designers, developers and business experts in order to turn ideas into real-world solutions. Since its establishment, the Foundry has commercialized dozens of projects, driving innovation from ideation to commercialization.