Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 21413
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2001/6/2-7/20 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:21413 Activity:high
6/01    Southwestern Bell buys Ameritech changes name to SBC than proceeds
        to buy PacBell. BellAtlantic merged with Nynex and GTE and became
        Verizon.  Qwest buys USWest. Next, Cingular the combined wireless
        assets of BellSouth and SBC- BellSouth's only major alliance:
        Sprint ( long distance and wireless )
        ATT ( long distance and wireless )
        WorldCom ( MCI and others )
        Can anyone make any sense of what is going on-- there is a defined
        pattern and clearly something is going to happend to Bellsouth and
        Sprint- they are basically the only guys still standing. -kinney
        \_ It's called consolidation.
        \_ It's called the "free market" choosing to form telecom cartels
           by only buying from huge corporations, only to complain later.
        \_ You're obviously too young to remember the true beginning, when
           most of the above were part of AT&T, until it was slashed into
           little bits by the Justice Dept.   It's all just coming full
           circle.
           \_ to what end tho?  do you think the gov't will be able to
              regulate the monopoly?
              \_ Go away kinney.
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