Not long after SBC bought AT&T, the new AT&T announces it is going to buy Bell South. Slowly but surely, Ma Bell - who had her arms and legs cut off by a court order, is re-assembling itself. This would make four of the baby bells back in the fold. Three to go.

It all goes to show the effectiveness of government anti-trust legislation. I'm curious to find out if any of this is even allowed under the anti-trust court order which split up the phone company. It's kinda' like sending killers to life in prison, and letting them out in five years.  But in all fairness, it's been twenty-two years since the Ma Bell breakup. A lot can happen in the communications world in twenty-two years. Cable phones, cell phones, satellite phones, VoIP, the internet.

I was curious what AT&T's strategy was when it sold its cable division to Comcast. That seemed to be the only worthwhile asset it held at the time. Now we see the master plan. This re-unification wouldn't have taken place if they had held onto the cable business. This deal has been in the works for a long time. Maybe for as long as twenty-two years...