Nickname: aruwo

Review: As pointed out by an earlier comment "the reduced price" and "being on your toes" approach that comes with competition is much better. This goes a long way to allay public fears of exploitation by giants emerging from M&As. No doubt that M&As are here to stay (and they are not all bad), the FCC I believe should intensely scrutinize them in order to address at least most, if not all antitrust concerns.

Date reviewed: Mar 8, 2006 9:37 AM

Nickname: Marcus

Review: Hmm; Project Lightspeed extends the reach of huge fiber backbones; WiMax spectrum available via cellular licenses already acquired, cell sites all over 22 states, cell phones that also do voip over WiFi coming out this year.. Intel releasing a chipset soon that'll support WiMax on top of the standards Centrino supports; buh-byee, wirelines, buh-byee! Time for Comcast et al to engage in some serious panic...

Date reviewed: Mar 7, 2006 5:00 AM

Nickname: rakesh

Review: AT&T is diluting their earnings. They're basically purchasing Cingular for a premium, since the land line business is a money loser

Date reviewed: Mar 7, 2006 1:08 AM

Nickname: Riley

Review: The so-called "new AT&T" faces three immediate problems. First, it owns billions of dollars worth of increasingly circuit switching infrastructure. Second, any attempts to modernize its obsolete infrastructure serve at least in part to undercut its existing revenue stream. Third, the company owns an increasing number of retail-level distribtution facilities, a.k.a. "local loop" or "last mile") connections at the very time that wire-based distribution faces virtual extinction at the hands of WI-FI and other non-AT&T sources. Yep, the dinosaur that was originally created so AT&T could challenge IBM in computing has been reassmbled just in time to challenge non-circuit-switched and non-terrestrial networking. Good luck to them!

Date reviewed: Mar 7, 2006 12:18 AM

Nickname: phone guy

Review: This merger has to be stopped. There won?t be any jobs left if we continue to let big money swallow us whole. Shareholder profits equal our layoffs.

Date reviewed: Mar 7, 2006 12:16 AM

Nickname: JD

Review: Well, once again it looks like the FCC and its boss, the US Senate will totally ignore the average joe and cuddle up with BIG Business. Work and slave? What's the use?

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2006 10:31 PM

Nickname: Danz

Review: The combination of the two giants will definitely offer complete communication services on one platform. But I think the reduced price and "being on your toes" approach that comes with competition was much better.

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2006 10:01 PM

Nickname: Ken

Review: Since Cingular bought out AT&T Wireless, price competition in the GSM Wireless market has lessened. You see it in the decrease in rebates and promotions plus the stifling of independent dealers from selling Cingular?s service. If that is any guide for a Bell South merger, I only see AT&T gaining the marketing power to squeeze more dollars out of its consumers to enrich its shareholders.

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2006 8:50 PM

Nickname: j

Review: I don't know much about AT&T. But I think they will do better if they could come up with services for lower prices than their main competition, Verizon Wireless. Since Bellsouth owns 40% of Cingular, it will be a good reason for AT&T to do business with BellSouth. Having 100% ownership of Cingular Wireless will help AT&T to become a major player in the wireless business. I believe AT&T will be a the future giant in the telecom industry if this deal works.

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2006 3:42 PM

Nickname: Dinesh

Review: This is the only way business will go on in the future.And it is only good to have some specific providers and concentrate in that particular domain.

Date reviewed: Mar 6, 2006 7:36 AM