Consumer Groups, Telecom Rivals Knock Proposed AT&T-BellSouth Merger

Several national telecommunications companies — many of them small competitors to the big phone monopolies — and some consumer groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the proposed $67 billion merger of AT&T and BellSouth. The Bells’ rivals are worried that the deal will create an entity with an even greater ability to thwart competition through increased control of local networks and market power to dictate prices they charge outside vendors to use their lines.

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