AT&T; in Talks to Replace Bank Facility
Reuters
AT&T; Corp., the No. 1 U.S. long-distance telephone and cable television company, is in talks to replace or renegotiate its $8-billion bank facility after a credit-rating downgrade by Moody’s Investors Service.
Moody’s cut AT&T;’s credit ratings to two notches above junk, to Baa2, affecting about $25 billion of debt.
AT&T; will seek to “replace or renegotiate all or a portion of its $8-billion” bank facility that expires in December.
That credit agreement stipulates that AT&T; cannot complete its sale of AT&T; Broadband to Comcast Corp. unless its long-term debt is rated at least Baa1.
