Telecom mega mergers... don't tick off god!

OK, just need to vent about the gianormous telecom giants being created by the AT&T/SBC and MCI/Verizon merger. Those two are going to control 80% of the telecom market... doesn't anyone care about that? I thought we broke up Ma Bell because she proved she had a wicked god complex. There are some great companies who are going to get caught in the wake of these two big mergers. XO Communications and Vonage are two of the larger ones, and then there are smaller companies like Transcom and VarTec who might hang on for a while longer if they get some protection from the courts. In fact, Transcom scored a great ruling the other day on their disputed ESP exemption status (http://www.isp-planet.com/politics/2005/transcom.html).

Here's some more news about the testimony from Carl Grivner before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Somebody's got to do something, or we'll be in a state of communist telecommunications before you know it.

http://news.webhosting.info/t-5391

http://www5.sys-con.com/read/77067.htm

More about the Transcom case...

http://www.isp-planet.com/politics/2005/transcom.html

http://telephonyonline.com/broadband/finance/wts_transcom_verizon_032805/

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-17-2005/0003204329&EDATE=