It seems like highly-mixed signals are already plaguing the recent AT&T-Bellsouth merger, as the new company wants to push convergence -- of landlines, broadband and television -- using an hugely-outdated infrastructure that the cable companies and wireless broadband companies are probably giggling at.AT&T has said that the landline business is a dinosaur (in so many words), so why does the company want to converge anything on all those old copper wires? That's bunk if you ask me -- a new, next-gen "to the curb" network will be needed or the new company will falter farther. But, the saving grace is Cingular Wireless, which is probably the only reason the merger really happened. I'll check back in 2015 when all this convergence is done.
1. AT&T should do what Verizon is doing and upgrade all their old copper lines with fiber optic. With fiber optic the possibilities are limitless, uncompressed (ie: super high quality) tv, voip phone service and internet faster than cable or dsl.
Posted at 9:16PM on Jan 3rd 2007 by James Smith