Stealth Monopoly (aka "ATT-1000")

AT&T said yesterday, in what might be its last earnings report in its 128-year history, that it earned $520 million in the third quarter. SBC Communications is awaiting regulatory approval to buy AT&T, which was formed when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. SBC expects its $16 billion purchase of AT&T to conclude before the end of the year. Now, is it just me or wasn't AT&T forced to break apart because it was a monopoly years ago? And ever since then, the "Baby Bells" it separated into have been slowly sliding together like the pieces of the T-1000 robot in Terminator 2 under the SBC umbrella. I don't mean to say it's a bad thing, but in T2, it became a cop who killed everybody.