SBC bought AT&T. SBC changed name to AT&T. AT&T did not have any local phone service to speak of so there was nothing to merge there. The people who are handling your local service are still SBC people. The people who run the company are SBC people (ask anyone who used to do legal work for ATT!). The only area where there are lots of AT&T people sticking around is the long-distance business.
The merger that *is* in the works and could conceivably have some effects (though probably not on legacy-SBC local phone service) is the acquisition of BellSouth.
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
well, that statement is wrong. It was a merger, but AT&T was made the bitch of SBC, although SBC took the higher-value name (or didn't want to sully the SBC name).
As for transitional period, i guess you really have to fuck things up to have existing customers get screwed by the integration of new customers (those formerly served by AT&T) into the system.
My condolences. I hope your cellphone is not Cingular.
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