there are many other problems bigger with other so called telecom companies with other companies in all lines of business...perfect service is long gone in the USA and else where in the world because the world wants CHEAP...in the USA we need to stop breaking up companies and let them be strong enough to at least begin compete again internationally with other country subsidized giants...this will just a start....so don't let the piling on begin again with this companies attempt to be competitive again
While SBC's US networks were disintegrating into obsolete 100-year old junk, they used the revenues they received from US ratepayers to build telephone systems in Mexico, Africa and the Middle East. Is that what you mean by competing internationally? I would rather have seen them investing in their homeland, meeting their responsibilities to build America's infrastructure, not some foreign country's.