working for bellsouth, all i've heard lately is people talking about how it is going back to before the vesitutre when at&t was broken up into all the "baby-bells".

what most people don't realize is that the att&t of the old days doesn't exist anymore......it went bankrupt years ago & one of the baby-bells(atlantic bell if memory serves me correctly) was smart enough to realize the market value of the name & bought it. so in essesence, what you have are 2 baby-bells merging....far from the market monopoly that the original at&t had back in the days

funny thing about all this is that a year or so ago, cingular bought at&t wireless from at&t.....cingular is owned by bellsouth & bellsouth is being bought out by at&t, so they just shuffled $$$$ around in the long run LOL