I wonder what advantage the CenturyTel and Embarq merger gave the new company. The companies service areas were not adjacent, the only factors that I could see were that CenturyTel bought Embarq at a low cost.
In 1999, long before Adelphia went bankrupt, Comcast and Adelphia performed an asset swap to reduce competition. Comcast was intruding in Adelphia's service area and Adelphia was doing the same in Comcasts service area. The solution was for Comcast to take over all of Adelphia's systems in Broward County, Florida and Adelphia took over all of Comcast's systems in Palm Beach County, Florida. Consumers wound up with higher prices.
CenturyTel gained more fiber that Sprint sold off with Embarq, and Embarq gained the KMC Telecom Fiber network that CenturyTel bought back in the early 2000s when they went bankrupt. -- www.two-pugs.com www.2pugs.etsy.com
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I wonder what advantage the CenturyTel and Embarq merger gave the new company. The companies service areas were not adjacent, the only factors that I could see were that CenturyTel bought Embarq at a low cost.