Consolidation: AT&T Wireless Up for Sale

What the hell do I know about wireless industry -- in the USA? Probabaly a lot less than analysts and people who make a living there. But, for an out-of-industry foreigner, I think I do OK. More than that, I know people who know. And, they told me this kind of consolidation in the US wireless industry was coming SOON. It seems that having so many incoherent and non-standardized (i.e., their registries, etc., let alone their choice of platform) organizations doesn't work so well for customers. Besides, if the companies themselves didn't do it, consumers would -- now that the stickiness of keeping a cool phone number doesn't matter.

Cingular gets AT&T? Verizon soon to step up to the buffet? What's on the table: BellSouth? Nextel?

Posted by Grayson at January 21, 2004 07:27 AM