AT&T Announces Preliminary Results of 2016 Annual Meeting

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BILLINGS, Mont., April 29, 2016 — At its annual meeting of shareholders today, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced that each of the 12 nominees to the company’s board of directors were reelected for one-year terms. Each member received at least 94.7 percent of the shares voted. The board members are:

Additionally, AT&T stockholders voted to approve the following items proposed by the board of directors:

  • The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the company’s independent auditor (98.5% of votes cast in favor).
  • In an advisory vote, the compensation of AT&T’s executive officers as described in the 2016 proxy statement (90.1% of votes cast in favor).
  • Ratification of AT&T’s 2016 Incentive Plan (93.1% of votes cast in favor).

All three shareholder proposals were defeated by a large margin: political contributions report (71.0% of votes cast against), lobbying report (66.1% of votes cast against) and independent chairman (76.3% of votes cast against).

When final voting results are available, they will be posted on the AT&T Investor Relations website.

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