Re: Any info on why? - dslreports.com

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Guy Waters join:2001-12-04 San Francisco, CA	reply to EPS Re: Any info on why? It was politics. SBC couldn't purchase AT&T Wireless while they were in a joint venture with BellSouth in Cingular. Once SBC purchased BellSouth they could then resurect the AT&T name. My personal opinion is SBC wanted 100% control of Cingular and it was less expensive to purchase all of BellSouth than to purchase BellSouth's 40% of Cingular.
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morbo Complete Your Transaction join:2002-01-22 00000 clubs: ·Charter Pipeline ·AT&T Southwest	said by Guy Waters : My personal opinion is SBC wanted 100% control of Cingular and it was less expensive to purchase all of BellSouth than to purchase BellSouth's 40% of Cingular. how do you figure? without cingular's profit for bellsouth, they could have watched as the company slowly withered away on the vine and then plucked it up a few years later. a la qwest.
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