Later Career
After Concert failed, Dorman became President of AT&T. On becoming CEO, he reorganized the company into 4 divisions, and floated AT&T Wireless in 2001, and merged AT&T Broadband with Comcast in 2002 - resulting in Chairman C Michael Armstrong leaving AT&T to run the new Comcast, while Dorman became CEO and Chairman of AT&T.
In 2003 AT&T became the largest provider of Internet services. With AT&T still under considerable debt, Dorman negotiated a merger with BellSouth that made him CEO, after F. Duane Ackerman had retired from BellSouth. However, the deal fell apart and on 18 November 2005 SBC Communications purchased AT&T. Dorman served as President of the combined company for a short while.
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