Qwest protests SBC-AT&T merger as harmful to competition

Tue Apr 19 18:51:10 UTC 2005

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> I am saying, "Who cars that Qwest is ticked off." Because Q is now ticked, 
> and fighting the fight that we want fought, this is _good_.

That is certainly not bad, but I DO care who my allies. This has to do with how 
to rely on them.

And for example I would not be surprised if Qwest statements only go so far as 
to serve their interest so they could negotiate their own piece of pie from 
MCI. So don't be astonished and cry "betrayed" if your "ally" Qwest
and your "enemy" Verizon were to announce tomorrow a deal with Verizon
keeping UUNET but selling off former WCOM CLEC portions to Qwest...

>> Just wish the consumer had more input...

Don't we all ....
(and maybe we should do more then just wish, we do actually enjoy
  benefit of voting in this "democracy" that controls our lives...)

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net