Or, if you’re not the mathematics type, the merger of these two former bell babies is worth about $16 billion and will create the biggest telecommunications company in the United States; a merger remniscent of when HP and Compaq got together to stare down Dell, which was larger than each of them but not at all as big as their powers combined. Well, looks like SBC and AT&T have teamed up to take on Verizon in the telecommunications ring.
It’s kind of a bittersweet ending for AT&T, which has been around for 125 years, and virtually an object in telecommunications since the invention of the telephone, a company whose name and brand are instantly recognizable regardless of where you are in the world. We’ll see where things go from here. More info:
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