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  1. #1
    John Navas
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    <http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/newsanalysis/techtelecom/10314330.html>

    AT&T's proposed merger with BellSouth sailed through the federal
    antitrust review.

    The Justice Department says it found nothing anticompetitive about
    the combination of two of the nation's largest telcos.

    Now, the next regulatory clearance for the deal is expected to come
    tomorrow from the Federal Communications Commission.

    The blessings from regulators come despite a request by lawmakers to
    delay the moves.

    Last month, Reps. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and John Conyers,
    D-Mich. -- the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat of the House
    Judiciary Committee -- asked antitrust regulators to wait on a merger
    approval until a federal judge has cleared two prior telco mergers.

    A federal district court judge in Washington is still hearing
    arguments on whether the mergers between SBC and AT&T, as well as
    Verizon (VZ - commentary - Cramer's Take) and MCI are in the public
    interest.

    The lack of complications and onerous conditions attached to the
    Justice Department's approval, plus early signs that the FCC wasn't
    looking to make any demands, was seen as a good sign by some Wall
    Streeters.

    [MORE]




    See More: NEWS: AT&T-BellSouth Antitrust OK




  2. #2
    John Navas
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    NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axvNrqDUTrLQ>

    The U.S. Federal Communications Commission postponed a vote on AT&T
    Inc.'s proposed $81 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. after
    Democrats on the panel demanded more public comment on the
    transaction.

    Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein asked for the
    delay today in a letter to Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC
    is the last regulatory hurdle AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company,
    must surmount to complete the deal.

    The move puts off a vote for at least 10 days to allow more public
    input. Copps and Adelstein criticized this week's approval of the
    purchase without conditions by the Justice Department, signaling it
    would face scrutiny at the FCC. Martin may lack a majority to approve
    the deal because the newest member, Republican Robert McDowell, is
    widely expected to recuse himself from the vote, leaving a 2-2 tie on
    the five-member panel.

    ``To win Democratic support and reduce partisan controversy, the
    Republicans would likely need to make some further concessions'' than
    those enacted in phone company mergers last year, analyst Blair Levin
    of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. wrote today in a note. ``We continue to
    believe AT&T and BellSouth will be very reluctant to go beyond modest
    additions.''

    More than 10,000 parties, including members of Congress, have urged
    the commission to conduct a thorough review of the proposed
    transaction, Copps and Adelstein said in their letter. Proposals made
    in the last 48 hours to address their concerns ``raise a number of
    significant questions and complex technical issues for us to
    consider,'' the letter said.

    [MORE]

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  3. #3
    www.ttdown.com
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    Re: NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:34:26 GMT, John Navas
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    ><http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axvNrqDUTrLQ>
    >
    > The U.S. Federal Communications Commission postponed a vote on AT&T
    > Inc.'s proposed $81 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. after
    > Democrats on the panel demanded more public comment on the
    > transaction.
    >
    > Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein asked for the
    > delay today in a letter to Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC
    > is the last regulatory hurdle AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company,
    > must surmount to complete the deal.
    >
    > The move puts off a vote for at least 10 days to allow more public
    > input. Copps and Adelstein criticized this week's approval of the
    > purchase without conditions by the Justice Department, signaling it
    > would face scrutiny at the FCC. Martin may lack a majority to approve
    > the deal because the newest member, Republican Robert McDowell, is
    > widely expected to recuse himself from the vote, leaving a 2-2 tie on
    > the five-member panel.
    >
    > ``To win Democratic support and reduce partisan controversy, the
    > Republicans would likely need to make some further concessions'' than
    > those enacted in phone company mergers last year, analyst Blair Levin
    > of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. wrote today in a note. ``We continue to
    > believe AT&T and BellSouth will be very reluctant to go beyond modest
    > additions.''
    >
    > More than 10,000 parties, including members of Congress, have urged
    > the commission to conduct a thorough review of the proposed
    > transaction, Copps and Adelstein said in their letter. Proposals made
    > in the last 48 hours to address their concerns ``raise a number of
    > significant questions and complex technical issues for us to
    > consider,'' the letter said.
    >
    > [MORE]




    Best news going. Democrats refuse to be a rubber stamp.




  4. #4
    Todd Allcock
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    Re: NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    At 14 Oct 2006 23:16:49 +0000 www.ttdown.com wrote:

    >
    > Best news going. Democrats refuse to be a rubber stamp.
    >

    Hmmm... I'm as liberal as they come, but with all of the problems in this
    country right now, is the merger of two regional phone companies the one
    issue the dems decided to finally grow a pair?

    The Democratic party rolls over more than a pack of dogs at an obedience
    school.



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  5. #5
    John Navas
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    Re: NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:16:36 -0600, Todd Allcock
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >At 14 Oct 2006 23:16:49 +0000 www.ttdown.com wrote:
    >
    >> Best news going. Democrats refuse to be a rubber stamp.
    >>

    >Hmmm... I'm as liberal as they come, but with all of the problems in this
    >country right now, is the merger of two regional phone companies the one
    >issue the dems decided to finally grow a pair?
    >
    >The Democratic party rolls over more than a pack of dogs at an obedience
    >school.


    Worse, when it does decide to hold some ground, it picks the wrong
    fights for no good reasons. [sigh]

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  6. #6
    www.ttdown.com
    Guest

    Re: NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:16:36 -0600, Todd Allcock
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    >At 14 Oct 2006 23:16:49 +0000 www.ttdown.com wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Best news going. Democrats refuse to be a rubber stamp.
    >>

    >Hmmm... I'm as liberal as they come, but with all of the problems in this
    >country right now, is the merger of two regional phone companies the one
    >issue the dems decided to finally grow a pair?
    >
    >The Democratic party rolls over more than a pack of dogs at an obedience
    >school.



    Duh, In case you didn't know it the Long Distance that SBC bought,,
    and assumed the name of - AT&T is hardly a regional outfit.



  7. #7
    Todd Allcock
    Guest

    Re: NEWS: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    At 15 Oct 2006 09:25:30 +0000 www.ttdown.com wrote:
    > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:16:36 -0600, Todd Allcock
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >


    > Duh, In case you didn't know it the Long Distance that SBC bought,,
    > and assumed the name of - AT&T is hardly a regional outfit.


    AT&T was a shell of it's former self when SBC bought them. They'd already
    divested themselves of their manufacturing (Lucent) business and their
    wireless business and were basically just another mediocre LD company.
    SBC bought them more for the AT&T name than anything else.

    As far as any anti-competitive effect of the merger, how does it affect
    competition? Although they're both large companies, they have different
    areas in which they are the major landline provider- it's not like there
    is any market they compete head-to-head in, where a customer can say,
    "I'm switching my landline service from BellSouth to AT&T!" with a small
    exception of LD, where a BS LD customer can choose between their local
    provider's LD or AT&T, but it's not too hard to argue that the LD market
    has plenty of competition.

    Since we all only have one provider of twisted pair wiring entering our
    home, and "competition" in landline telephone is defined as a bunch of
    competing resellers, does it really matter if the folks in Florida have
    the same landline phone company as those in Oklahoma?

    Either way, my comments were more anti-Democratic party than pro-merger-
    I'd rather have the party fighting to save, say, our teens from
    experiencing the horrors of war, than saving Georgia from experiencing
    the horrors of AT&T!




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  8. #8
    DavidT
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    Wasn't Bellsouth one of the orginal entities spun off when the feds broke up
    AT&T the first time???????


    "John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    > <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axvNrqDUTrLQ>
    >
    > The U.S. Federal Communications Commission postponed a vote on AT&T
    > Inc.'s proposed $81 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. after
    > Democrats on the panel demanded more public comment on the
    > transaction.
    >
    > Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein asked for the
    > delay today in a letter to Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC
    > is the last regulatory hurdle AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company,
    > must surmount to complete the deal.
    >
    > The move puts off a vote for at least 10 days to allow more public
    > input. Copps and Adelstein criticized this week's approval of the
    > purchase without conditions by the Justice Department, signaling it
    > would face scrutiny at the FCC. Martin may lack a majority to approve
    > the deal because the newest member, Republican Robert McDowell, is
    > widely expected to recuse himself from the vote, leaving a 2-2 tie on
    > the five-member panel.
    >
    > ``To win Democratic support and reduce partisan controversy, the
    > Republicans would likely need to make some further concessions'' than
    > those enacted in phone company mergers last year, analyst Blair Levin
    > of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. wrote today in a note. ``We continue to
    > believe AT&T and BellSouth will be very reluctant to go beyond modest
    > additions.''
    >
    > More than 10,000 parties, including members of Congress, have urged
    > the commission to conduct a thorough review of the proposed
    > transaction, Copps and Adelstein said in their letter. Proposals made
    > in the last 48 hours to address their concerns ``raise a number of
    > significant questions and complex technical issues for us to
    > consider,'' the letter said.
    >
    > [MORE]
    >
    > --
    > Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
    > John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>






  9. #9
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:29:49 -0400, "DavidT" <[email protected]> wrote
    in <[email protected]>:

    >Wasn't Bellsouth one of the orginal entities spun off when the feds broke up
    >AT&T the first time???????


    Yes. SBC is putting Ma Bell back together again.

    >"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axvNrqDUTrLQ>
    >>
    >> The U.S. Federal Communications Commission postponed a vote on AT&T
    >> Inc.'s proposed $81 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. after
    >> Democrats on the panel demanded more public comment on the
    >> transaction.
    >>
    >> Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein asked for the
    >> delay today in a letter to Republican Chairman Kevin Martin. The FCC
    >> is the last regulatory hurdle AT&T, the largest U.S. phone company,
    >> must surmount to complete the deal.
    >>
    >> The move puts off a vote for at least 10 days to allow more public
    >> input. Copps and Adelstein criticized this week's approval of the
    >> purchase without conditions by the Justice Department, signaling it
    >> would face scrutiny at the FCC. Martin may lack a majority to approve
    >> the deal because the newest member, Republican Robert McDowell, is
    >> widely expected to recuse himself from the vote, leaving a 2-2 tie on
    >> the five-member panel.
    >>
    >> ``To win Democratic support and reduce partisan controversy, the
    >> Republicans would likely need to make some further concessions'' than
    >> those enacted in phone company mergers last year, analyst Blair Levin
    >> of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. wrote today in a note. ``We continue to
    >> believe AT&T and BellSouth will be very reluctant to go beyond modest
    >> additions.''
    >>
    >> More than 10,000 parties, including members of Congress, have urged
    >> the commission to conduct a thorough review of the proposed
    >> transaction, Copps and Adelstein said in their letter. Proposals made
    >> in the last 48 hours to address their concerns ``raise a number of
    >> significant questions and complex technical issues for us to
    >> consider,'' the letter said.
    >>
    >> [MORE]
    >>
    >> --
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    >> John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>

    >


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  10. #10
    Rick Blaine
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    "DavidT" <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Wasn't Bellsouth one of the orginal entities spun off when the feds broke up
    >AT&T the first time???????


    Yep. The world has changed a lot since then...



  11. #11
    Rico
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
    >"DavidT" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >>Wasn't Bellsouth one of the orginal entities spun off when the feds broke up
    >>AT&T the first time???????

    >
    >Yep. The world has changed a lot since then...


    Yes, we've had massive media consolidation so that there are in fact fewer
    players available today to transport your information. This is just another
    step on the road to extremely restricted compitition. Welcome to the world
    of the oligarchy.

    fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.



  12. #12
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:29:24 GMT, [email protected] (Rico) wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] wrote:
    >>"DavidT" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >>>Wasn't Bellsouth one of the orginal entities spun off when the feds broke up
    >>>AT&T the first time???????

    >>
    >>Yep. The world has changed a lot since then...

    >
    >Yes, we've had massive media consolidation so that there are in fact fewer
    >players available today to transport your information. This is just another
    >step on the road to extremely restricted compitition. Welcome to the world
    >of the oligarchy.


    There's no sign of that yet -- there's clearly more intense competition
    in all forms of communications than in the past.

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  13. #13
    Andy S
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    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    >"John Navas" <[email protected]>
    >wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    > There's no sign of that yet -- there's clearly more intense competition
    > in all forms of communications than in the past.
    >
    > --
    > Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
    > John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
    >

    You may see it that way. I sure don't. Case in point, Entercom just bought
    the
    local CBS owned stations. True they'll have to divest one or two of them
    because
    of FCC regulations and or poor performance. Unless there are PBS, College,
    High School
    and the like stations broadcasting, then there are only TWO major players
    telling me what I get to hear.
    Sure, I have the choice NOT to listen, but again, IMO, there is LESS
    competition.

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  14. #14
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:28:44 GMT, "Andy S"
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >>"John Navas" <[email protected]>
    >>wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    >> There's no sign of that yet -- there's clearly more intense competition
    >> in all forms of communications than in the past.


    >You may see it that way. I sure don't. ...


    Much lower prices are a sure sign of intense competition.

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  15. #15
    Andy S
    Guest

    Re: AT&T BellSouth Purchase Hits Snag as FCC Delays Vote

    > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:28:44 GMT, "Andy S"
    > <[email protected]> wrote in
    > <[email protected]>:
    >
    >>>"John Navas" <[email protected]>
    >>>wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    >>> There's no sign of that yet -- there's clearly more intense competition
    >>> in all forms of communications than in the past.

    >
    >>You may see it that way. I sure don't. ...

    >
    >"John Navas" <[email protected]>
    >wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    >
    > Much lower prices are a sure sign of intense competition.
    >
    > --
    > Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
    > John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>
    >

    And as usual, you quote only that witch "proves" YOUR point.
    I quoted the part relevant to my reply. " there's clearly more intense
    competition
    in all forms of communications than in the past." ALL FORMS not just
    cellular.
    I responded to that and YOU ignored that.

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