NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Nov. 8, 2005--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that it assigned its 'A' rating to San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications Inc.'s $2 billion of new unsecured debt securities to be issued under its shelf registration. These will consist of $500 million floating-rate notes due 2008, $1 billion global notes due 2010 and $500 million 6.15% global notes due 2034, which will be issued as an add on to $500 million of notes issued in November 2004. Net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including repayment of a portion of outstanding commercial paper borrowings. At the same time, we affirmed our 'A' corporate credit rating and 'A' senior unsecured debt rating on the
