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Re: Qwest protests SBC-AT&T merger as harmful to competition

  • From: Justin M. Streiner
  • Date: Tue Apr 19 15:09:55 2005 
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:


That may be, but they are right.
If Qwest would have won the bid, then it would be up to Verizon to cry foul - and rest assured they would. Funny how that works :-)

Do you think anyone will benefit from Verizon+MCI? After this merger, the incumbent ILEC in a huge market area will also own the only real CAP (remember Brooks and MFS?). Isn't it bizarre that it is possible that a regulated LEC will also own an unregulated CAP, which currently competes (vigorously, I might add) with the LEC?

Do you think anyone will benefit from ATT+SBC?
No. I didn't (and don't) agree with SBC+ATT, Verizon+MCI, or Qwest+MCI,
if that one would have happened.

Verizon will also get to expand their portfol-- er... patchwork of unrelated provisioning systems, engineering, support organizations with no less than 4 or 5 dozen different access numbers to call for support or
troubleshooting, depending on what you want. MCI never fully integrated
the MFS assets (MFS was bought _how_ many years ago???), and Verizon's track record for integration is no better.

Bottom line: don't count on any economies of scale to come from this merger.

Both mergers stink to high heaven. And we can probably rest assured that the FCC does not have the consumers' best interest in mind.
They haven't for quite a long time.

jms