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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jeff Cole wrote: So let me guess - we'll have 3 wireless companies (Cingular, VerizonOn Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:32:44AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote:I did see an article a few days ago (can't find the url now) claiming that Sprint is planning on focusing purely on wireless and spinning off their "traditional" telco/internet operations.iOh yeah. That's been part of the plan ever since the merger was announced. No surprises there. Bets that it will be bought up by VZ or SBC? Wireless, Sprint) and 3 telco companies (SBC, Verizon, XYZ). Since Cingular is associated with (and part-owned by) SBC and Verizon Wireless with you can guess who yourself, that leaves the question of what will be the counterpart in the telco that is associated with Sprint Wireless. As you can see from above, I don't think that Sprint Telco will be bought by either Verizon or SBC - to me it seems more likely that we'll see it merged together with one (or more) of the other remaining large ILEC/CLEC telcos (probably XO or Qwest or maybe it'd end up being XO+Qwest+Sprint that will make up XYZ). But anyway - age of competition and deregulation and price-wars for customers in US seem soon to be coming to its end... -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [email protected]
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