[Jazzman1]

let us hope this merger seals the doom of the corporate pariah known as MCI!

[monkapotamus]

Chinese buying IBM... a baby Bell buying AT&T. Sign of the end times?

[Pro-Bush]

AT&T is ripe for the picking. Long Distance is not a money maker anymore, and they shed off their CPE business with Lucent/Avaya. They are loosing their shirts to VoIP, Cable Telecom (COX), and RBOC's in Long Distance now.

Bye Ma-Bell!

[An.American.Expatriate]

Any information on the ownership structure of SBC???

[Moonman62]

Kind of sad. I remember when their corporate logo was compared to the Death Star. But after several years of bad moves by AT&T, Walmart now fills the role of the giant corporate villain.

[SaveTheChief]

I got my Vonage service set up today and tried it out a couple times. If everything goes well, I will never have to use a telephone line in my home again. Not only that, but I will be saving a significant amount of money by using this service.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I worked for AT&T for a short time in the 90s. We were a non-telephone related subsidiary that they purchased. While I was there they sold off the Universal Card, which struck me as stupid since it seemed UC was rolling in dough, but what did I know? They also spun off Lucent, losing the R&R powerhouse that was formerly known as Bell Labs.

NJ installed a placeholder president at our plant who only talked about getting back to NJ. We must have been a Siberia to him. The suits used to come in from the mothership from time to time. All they talked about was "minutes on the network" (long distance). None of them could see that the old days of expensive LD was doomed with cell phones, Internet and other innovations. They were all in a time warp from the 1960s.

I knew they were going to sell our little company and found a new job at a different company.

At one time AT&T was one of the most recognized brands in the world. I wonder if they'll keep the old globe logo. Amazing times...

[dirtboy]

SBC Said to Be in Talks to Buy AT&T

How times change. A Baby Bell now seeks to swallow Ma Bell.