Not that mind-boggling. The FCC under the Bush administration has been a joke from the get-go. (This coming from a very right-leaning independent). This is the ultimate shell game, considering ATT's antics last year. cheers, brian On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Fergie wrote: : :Reuters and CNN/Money also reporting same: : : http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/05/news/companies/att_bellsouth/index.htm : :Mind-boggling. : :- ferg : : : :-- "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote: : :This is from Dave Farber's list .. : :> Subject: Everything old is new again :> From: Kevin G. Barkes :> :> NEWS ALERT :> from The Wall Street Journal :> :> AT&T is planning to acquire BellSouth for roughly $65 billion. A :> deal between the two could be announced as early as Monday. : :I somehow wonder if the old executives at Ma Bell had already worked :out a timeline for resurrecting her well before she was split up .. : :--srs :-- :Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com) : : :-- :"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson : Engineering Architecture for the Internet : fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net : ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ : : : -- ___________________________________ Brian Wallingford Director, Network Operations MegaNet Communications, TCIX, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~