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Owasso, OK | Cake & eat it too? For years, here in OK, SBC claimed that, even though none are in direct competition, all of the small ILECs were competitors and, therefore, SBC should be allowed to offer long-distance services and have state regulations reduced. The state legislators agreed and handed SBC everything they wanted.
Now, it seems that these non-competing "competitors" are being merged back into Ma Bell with the reason that there isn't really any competition, so the mergers should be approved.
So which is it? Are these other phone companies competitors or not?
This merger doesn't really affect me at all because neither SBC nor BS services my location. But we (the consumers & voting public) need to make these companies pick a stance on their 'competition' and stick with it. |
