Loving some of these comments today.
They're doing "a lot of thinking" are they? ...How can it possibly take more than 2 seconds to see that this is a waste of time.
SBC bought AT&T, but they kept AT&T, as it's certainly more "nationally" recognizable, and that was arguably an OK move to keep that name instead of SBC. It also made sense to "re-combine" parts of the shattered pieces of the "ma bell" network, and it was all "terrestrial" telephony/data.
This, I just don't think so. I mean, come on, DirecTV. It's simple. It works. It makes sense.
Guess they could rip off Echostar
- BORGSTAR
- DeathBorg
- DirecBorg
- DirecBell
- SpaceBell
- SpaceBall
....ok, I give up now
edit: I'm not super hopeful that they merge. It would probably not benefit very many people.