As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November __, 1998
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration No. 33-51371
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
to
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND
TELEPHONE COMPANY
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
A CONNECTICUT CORPORATION 06-0542646
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification Number)
310 ORANGE STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06510
TELEPHONE NUMBER (203) 771-2110
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including
area code, of Registrant's principal executive offices)
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MADELYN M. DEMATTEO
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND SECRETARY
310 ORANGE STREET
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06510
TELEPHONE NUMBER (203) 771-2110
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
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Please address a copy of all communications to:
WAYNE WIRTZ, ESQ.
SBC COMMUNICATIONS INC.
175 E. HOUSTON STREET, 12TH FLOOR
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78205
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RECENT EVENTS: DEREGISTRATION
The Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 33-51371) (the
"Registration Statement") of The Southern New England Telephone Company ("SNET")
pertaining to $540,000,000 debt securities of SNET to which this Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 relates, was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange
Commission on December 13, 1993.
In accordance with an undertaking made by SNET in the Registration
Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment,
any debt securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, SNET
hereby removes from registration the debt securities of SNET registered but
unsold under the Registration Statement.
ITEM 16. EXHIBITS.
Exhibit
Number
(24)a Powers of Attorney for The Southern New England Telephone Company.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this
Post-Effective Amendment to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, on the 9th day of November, 1998.
THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE
COMPANY
By: /s/ Donald R. Shassian
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Name: Donald R. Shassian
Title: Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Post-Effective Amendment has been signed below by the following persons and in
the capacities and on the date indicated.
Principal Executive Officer:
Tom E. Morgan*
President and Chief Executive Officer
and Director
Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer:
Donald R. Shassian*
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Directors:
Daniel J. Miglio*
Royce S. Caldwell*
James D. Ellis*
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* By Power of Attorney
*By /s/ Donald R. Shassian
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Donald R. Shassian, as attorney-in-fact
for Mr. Morgan, the Directors, and on
his own behalf as Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
November 9, 1998
Exhibit 24(a)
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
THAT, WHEREAS, THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE COMPANY, a
Connecticut corporation, hereinafter referred to as the "Company," proposes to
file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, a post-effective amendment to its
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 33-51371) to deregister unsold
amounts registered thereunder (the "Registration Statement"), and
NOW, THEREFORE, each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Tom E. Morgan, Madelyn M. DeMatteo, Donald R. Shassian, Wayne A. Wirtz, or any
one of them, the undersigned's attorneys for the undersigned and in the
undersigned's name, place and stead, and each of the undersigned's offices and
capacities in the Company, to execute and file such amendment to the
Registration Statement, hereby giving and granting to said attorneys full power
and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite and necessary to be done in and concerning the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally
present at the doing thereof, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys may or shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has hereunto set his or her
hand as of the 5th day of November 1998.
/s/ Tom E. Morgan /s/ Donald R. Shassian
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Tom E. Morgan Donald R. Shassian
President and Chief Executive Officer Senior Vice President and Chief
and Director Financial Officer
/s/ Daniel J. Miglio /s/ Royce S. Caldwell
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Daniel J. Miglio Royce S. Caldwell
Chairman of the Board and Director Director
/s/ James D. Ellis
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James D. Ellis
Director
