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Nice rant. But since this isn't your blog you'll probably have to grace us with some substance. None of AT&T exists anymore--SBC acquired that corpse last year, so the company currently calling itself "AT&T" isn't even really "AT&T". The new deal is basically SBC buying up BellSouth and getting the rest of Cingular in the deal. I just don't see how this is all that different from the stream of M&As that produced Verizon back in the 90s. Sure it's a big deal, just like that one was. Another giant telco, hoorah. Nightsweats about the ghost of Ma Bell rising? lol no. On 3/5/2006 10:24 PM, Fergie wrote: > An overreach? Really? > > I'd say that you're not paying attention. > > And how do you come to that conclusion? By the fact that "very > little" of the original AT&T is in the current monolith? > > Well, given the entire 'two-tiered' money-grab-tastic issues > involved, I'd say you're a little out of touch. > > - ferg > > > -- "Eric A. Hall" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 3/5/2006 7:10 PM, Steve Sobol wrote: > >>Eric A. Hall wrote: >> >> >>>What are people worried about here exactly? >> >>The same lack of competition in telecommunications that we had in the 1980s? > > > Well that's an overreach. And if the primary concern is consolidation then > we should have blocked NYNEX and Bell Atlantic from merging back in 1997, > since this deal is basically SBC + BellSouth/Cingular, which is mostly > indistinguishable from the earlier one. > > I think people are reacting to the brand, the AT&T ghost really, since > there's none of it left. > -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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