Form of Global Note due 2022



 Exhibit 4.2 
 (FACE OF NOTE) 
 THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE INDENTURE AND THE
TERMS OF THE SECURITIES, THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR
ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. 
 UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO AT&T INC., OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO.
OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
 AT&T INC. 
 3.000% Global Notes due 2022 

CUSIP NO. 00206R BD3 
 ISIN NO. US00206RBD35 
 No. R-4 

$500,000,000 

AT&T Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called “AT&T”,
which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of Five Hundred Million Dollars ($500,000,000) on
February 15, 2022 (the “Maturity Date”), and to pay interest on said principal sum from February 13, 2012 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually in arrears
on February 15 and August 15 in each year, commencing on August 15, 2012 (each an “Interest Payment Date”) and on the Maturity Date, at the interest rate of 3.000% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as 







 
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest,
which shall be the close of business on February 1 or August 1, as the case may be (each, a “Regular Record Date”), next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment
of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than 15 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. 

Any money that AT&T deposits with the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of principal or any interest on this Note that
remains unclaimed for two years after the date upon which the principal and interest are due and payable, will be repaid to AT&T upon AT&T’s request unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of any applicable unclaimed property
law. After that time, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of any unclaimed property law, the Holder of this Note will be able to seek any payment to which such Holder may be entitled to collect only from AT&T. 

If the Notes are issued in definitive form, payment of the principal and interest on this Note due at the Maturity Date or upon
redemption will be made at the Maturity Date or upon redemption, as the case may be, upon presentation of this Note, in immediately available funds, at the office of The Bank of New York Mellon, the Paying and Transfer Agent and Registrar for the
Notes, currently located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286. 
 Payment of interest on this Note due on an Interest
Payment Date, other than interest at maturity or upon redemption, may be paid by check mailed to the address of the Holder entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the Depository as
Holder of the Notes or (2) a Holder of more than U.S.$5,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes in definitive form is entitled to require the Paying Agent to make payments of interest, other than interest due at maturity or upon
redemption, by wire transfer of immediately available funds into an account maintained by the Holder in the United States, by sending appropriate wire transfer instructions as long as the Paying Agent receives the instructions not less than ten days
prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date. 
 Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth
on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature,
this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AT&T INC. has caused this instrument to be signed in its corporate
name, manually or by facsimile, by its duly authorized officers and has caused its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon. 
  

					
	Dated: June 14, 2012	 	AT&T INC.
		
	[SEAL]	 	
			
		 	By:	 	  

		 		 	 John J. Stephens
 Senior
Executive Vice President
 and Chief Financial Officer

			
		 	By:	 	  

		 		 	 Jonathan P. Klug
 Senior
Vice President
 and Treasurer









 Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication 
 This is one of the 3.000% Global Notes due 2022 
 of the series designated herein referred to

 in the within-mentioned Indenture. 
  

							
	THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee	 		 	
				
	By:	 	  
	 		 	Dated: June 14, 2012
		 	Authorized Signatory	 		 	








 REVERSE OF NOTE 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of debt securities of AT&T of the series specified on the face hereof, issued under and
pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of November 1, 1994, between AT&T and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto (collectively, the “Indenture”) reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, AT&T and the Holders of the Notes and
of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The Notes will be issued in fully registered form only and in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of AT&T and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the Indenture at any time by AT&T and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding to waive compliance by AT&T with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note. 
 No reference herein to
the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of AT&T, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed. 
 Registrar and Paying Agent 

AT&T shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment or for exchange (“Paying Agent”). AT&T has initially appointed the Trustee, The Bank of New York Mellon, as
its Registrar and Paying Agent. AT&T may vary or terminate the appointment of any of its paying or transfer agencies, and may appoint additional paying or transfer agencies. 

Optional Redemption by AT&T 
 The Notes will be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at AT&T’s option, at any time on at least 30 days’, but not more than 60 days’, prior notice mailed to the registered address of
each Holder of the Notes. The redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined below)
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semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months), at a rate equal to the sum of the Treasury Rate (as defined below) and 20 basis points. In either case, accrued
interest will be payable to the redemption date. 
 “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the
rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolation (on a day count basis) of the interpolated Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal
amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date. 
 “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the
United States Treasury security or securities selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and
in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of a comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Notes. 
 “Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers, appointed by the Trustee after consultation with AT&T. 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations for such redemption date after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
quotations. 
 “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any
redemption date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury
Dealer at 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date. 
 “Reference Treasury
Dealer” means each of BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and their respective affiliates and, at the option of the Company, one other nationally recognized investment banking firm
that is a primary U.S. Government Securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”); provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, we will substitute therefor another
Primary Treasury Dealer. 
 “Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to each Note to be redeemed, the
remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Note that would be due after the related redemption date but for the redemption. If that redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to a Note, the amount of the next
succeeding scheduled interest payment on the Note will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued on the Note to the redemption date. 

  
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 On and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or any portion
of the Notes called for redemption, unless AT&T defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest. On or before the redemption date, AT&T will deposit with a Paying Agent or the Trustee money sufficient to pay the
redemption price of and accrued interest on the Notes to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Notes of any series are to be redeemed, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee by lot or by such other method as the
Trustee in its sole discretion deems to be fair and appropriate. 
 Payment of Additional Amounts 

AT&T will, subject to certain exceptions and limitations set forth below, pay as additional interest on the Notes such additional
amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as are necessary so that the net payment by AT&T or a Paying Agent of the principal of and interest on this Note to a person that is a United States Alien Holder, after deduction for any present or future
tax, assessment or governmental charge of the United States or a political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, imposed by withholding with respect to the payment, will not be less than the amount that would have been payable in
respect of the Notes had no withholding or deduction been required; provided, however, that the foregoing obligation to pay additional amounts shall not apply: 

(1) to any tax, assessment or governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely because the beneficial owner, or a
fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary or member of the beneficial owner if the beneficial owner is an estate, trust or partnership, or a person holding a power over an estate or trust administered by a fiduciary holder: 

(a) is or was present or engaged in trade or business in the United States or has or had a permanent establishment in the
United States; 
 (b) is or was a citizen or resident or is or was treated as a resident of the United States;

 (c) is or was a foreign or domestic personal holding company, a passive foreign investment company or a
controlled foreign corporation with respect to the United States or is or was a corporation that has accumulated earnings to avoid United States federal income tax; or 

(d) is or was a “10-percent shareholder” of AT&T; 

(2) to any Holder that is not the sole beneficial owner of the Notes, or a portion thereof, or that is a fiduciary or
partnership, but only to the extent that the beneficial owner, a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, or a member of the partnership would not have been entitled to the payment of an additional amount had such beneficial owner,
beneficiary, settlor or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment; 

  
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 (3) to any tax, assessment or governmental charge that is imposed or
withheld solely because the beneficial owner or any other person failed to comply with certification, identification or information reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the United States of the
Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes, if compliance is required by statute, by regulation of the United States Treasury Department or by an applicable income tax treaty to which the United States is a party as a precondition to exemption from
such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; 
 (4) to any tax, assessment or governmental charge that is
imposed other than by deduction or withholding by AT&T or a Paying Agent from the payment; 
 (5) to any tax,
assessment or governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely because of a change in law, regulation, or administrative or judicial interpretation that becomes effective after the day on which the payment becomes due or is duly provided for,
whichever occurs later; 
 (6) to an estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise, transfer, wealth or personal
property tax or any similar tax, assessment or governmental charge; 
 (7) to any tax, assessment or other
governmental charge any paying agent (which term may include us) must withhold from any payment of principal of or interest on any note, if such payment can be made without such withholding by any other paying agent; or 

(8) in the case of any combination of the above items. 
 Except as specifically provided herein, AT&T shall not be required to make any payment with respect to any tax, assessment or governmental charge imposed by any government or a political subdivision
or taxing authority thereof or therein. 
 “United States Alien Holder” means (a) a nonresident alien individual,
(b) a foreign corporation, (c) a foreign partnership or (d) an estate or trust that in either case is not subject to United States federal income tax on a net income basis or income or gain from a Note. 

Redemption Upon a Tax Event 
 If (a) AT&T becomes or will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of the United
States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein), or any change in, or amendment to, any official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is
announced or becomes effective on or after February 8, 2012, or (b) a taxing authority of the United States takes an action on or after February 8, 2012, whether or not with respect to AT&T or any of its affiliates, that results
in a substantial probability that AT&T will or may be required to pay such Additional 

  
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Amounts, then AT&T may, at its option, redeem, as a whole, but not in part, the Notes on any interest payment date on not less than 30 nor more than 60 calendar days’ prior notice, at a
redemption price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for redemption. However, AT&T may determine, in its business judgment, that the obligation to pay these Additional Amounts cannot
be avoided by the use of reasonable measures available to it, not including substitution of the obligor under the Notes. No redemption pursuant to (b) above may be made unless AT&T shall have received an opinion of independent counsel to
the effect that an act taken by a taxing authority of the United States results in a substantial probability that AT&T will or may be required to pay the Additional Amounts and AT&T shall have delivered to the Trustee a certificate, signed
by a duly authorized officer stating, that based on such opinion, AT&T is entitled to redeem the Notes pursuant to their terms. 
 Further Issues 
 AT&T reserves the right from time to time, without
notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Notes, to create and issue further notes ranking equally and ratably with the Notes in all respects, or in all respects except for the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date or except for
the first payment of interest following the issue date of those further notes. Any further notes will have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the Notes. Any further notes shall be issued pursuant to a resolution of the board of
directors of AT&T, a supplement to the Indenture, or under an officers’ certificate pursuant to the Indenture. 

Notes in Definitive Form 
 If (1) an Event of Default has occurred with regard to the Notes represented by this Note and has not been cured or waived in accordance with the Indenture, or (2) the Depository is at any time
unwilling or unable to continue as depository and a successor depository is not appointed by AT&T within 90 days, AT&T may issue notes in definitive form in exchange for this Note. In either instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in the
Notes will be entitled to the physical delivery in definitive form in exchange for this Note, equal in principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have such Notes registered in its name. 

Notes so issued in definitive form will be issued as registered notes in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000, unless otherwise specified by AT&T. 
 Notes so issued in definitive form may be transferred by presentation for
registration to the Registrar at its New York office and must be duly endorsed by the Holder or the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, or accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to AT&T
or the Trustee duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. 
 AT&T may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any exchange or registration of transfer of definitive Notes. 

  
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 Default 
 In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal hereof may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the
manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture. 
 Miscellaneous 

For purposes of the Notes, a Business Day means a Business Day in The City of New York and London. 

No director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of AT&T shall have any liability for any obligations of AT&T under this
Note, the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting this Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the
issue of this Note. 
 The Notes are the unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of AT&T and will rank pari passu
with all other evidences of indebtedness issued in accordance with the Indenture. 
 Notices to Holders of the Notes will be
published in authorized newspapers in The City of New York and in London. AT&T is deemed to have given the notice on the date of each publication or, if published more than once, on the date of the first publication. 

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, AT&T, the Trustee and any agent of AT&T or the Trustee may
treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither AT&T, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 

All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. 

The Indenture and this Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 

  
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