connecting*the*dots

darkmoon: “I’d be very careful of using Cingular for cell service and BellSouth also. Since Cingular is the renamed AT&T Wireless, and BellSouth and SBC control Cingular, the management scenarios are very similar.”…

Lawrence Lessig: …”Apparent there are now allegations that SBC and Verizon forced the deals through DoJ when the designee for head of antitrust was on Senatorial hold for too activist an enforcement bent. DoJ cleared the deals and the hold was lifted. DoJ then ignored the amended Tunney Act and let the companies close the deals even before the judge did the Tunney Act review.”…

Joe Killian: …”These folks were occasionally strange and unintentionally humorous – but the only real danger was cavities as I was treated to saccharine sweet, two-fisted handshake and full body hug hospitality by complete strangers. It was unnerving at first – then funny, then eerily surreal. I haven’t been so enthusiastically, physically greeted by that many male strangers anywhere outside of a gay bar.”…