And then there were two
Looks like BellSouth is about to be grabbed by AT&T - which will leave us with two big telcos - Verizon and AT&T. Kind of like the way Standard Oil was mostly rebuilt when Exxon bought Mobil a couple of years ago. Over the long haul, it looks a lot like the lawyers are the only ones who win from anti-trust suits.
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Three, not two
[Steven Fenger] March 6, 2006 14:49:48.972
There will be three big telcos. You forgot about Quest, which covers the north- and mid-west. Granted, Quest isn't as big as Verizon and merged BellSouth/AT&T, but it is still pretty big. One other interesting thing to note is that the combined BellSouth/AT&T would be come the leading broadband provider with 10 million DSL lines verses Comcast's 7.5 million.