AT&T About to be Bought by SBC?!

Who could have imagined it? AT&T, the company which once held a monopoly on telecommunications in the USA, is in talks to be bought out. SBC - the upstart that has bought up a myriad of local landline and cellular phone companies - is now ready to eat up "Ma Bell." Perhaps this is another warning sign for Microsoft. A monopoly is a powerful thing. But lose that monopoly - through the courts or through the natural processes of business - and suddenly the giant can become the roach underfoot.