ABSTRACT
Once there were seven RBOCs. Once there were three major long distance carriers, and WorldCom wasn’t one of them. AT&T combines with TCI. I’m not going to deconstruct the reasons why telecom companies think bigger
is better. These companies are jumping on the express train to consolidation, try ing to make sure that no matter what pathway customers use to talk to one another (internet, telephone, cable modems, wireless, whatever), they have the pipeline into the customer’s premise, and the money to lay more pipeline.
