This merger is a sure thing. SBC and BellSouth have been in bed together for a long time in Cingular wireless. When the Fed said nothing on the AT&T wireless merger and the SBC AT&T merger.
It's funny, the Feb blocked the Sprint/MCI merger, but they had no problem with Verizon buying MCI and now the rumors are Verizon is going to scoop up Sprint who is no merged with Nextel.
vrizon should have brought sprint b4 it merged with nextel it made way more sense why would sprint buy a company that use different technology than they have