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Re: AT&T Hangs Up - and Few Are Sorry to Say Goodbye

John McHarry (jmcharry@comcast.net)
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:04:33 GMT

Well, it was swallowed by one of its own spawn, and they have pretty
well managed to choke off local competition, so those who do morn
shouldn't have long to wait for the Second Coming.

Voip is a large cloud on the horizon for them, but expect them to try
to freeze it out of the interconnect market. Even if they don't, the
cable companies are likely to attack the independent voip
providers. If that succeeds, a duopoly is little better than a
monopoly. They may not legally conspire to set prices, but there will
ensue a sort of truce, like obtained in long distance for many years,
where competitors were allowed to undercut AT&T by a certain amount,
but not more (AT&T had the lowest operating cost), and raised their
rates when AT&T did.

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