[89236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Sun Mar 5 22:27:36 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:24:56 GMT
To: ehall@ehsco.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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" <ehall@ehsco.com> 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 th=
en
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=
/
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
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