{"id":13675,"date":"2005-02-03T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/sbc-to-buy-att\/"},"modified":"2005-02-03T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T12:21:00","slug":"sbc-to-buy-att","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/03\/sbc-to-buy-att\/","title":{"rendered":"SBC To Buy AT&amp;T?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you (like me) are a bit confused by the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/BUSINESS\/01\/31\/sbc.att\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">purchase of AT&amp;T by SBC for $16 billion<\/a>, then this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entry\/1234000733029998\/\" target=\"_blank\">brief history of the two companies<\/a> presented by <i>Engadget<\/i> might make things slightly clearer.  So basically this merger would reconstitute the monopoly that was broken up in 1984?!  I don&rsquo;t get it&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110743326391645728?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you (like me) are a bit confused by the proposed purchase of AT&amp;T by SBC for $16 billion, then this brief history of the two companies presented by Engadget might make things slightly clearer. So basically this merger would reconstitute the monopoly that was broken up in 1984?! I don&rsquo;t get it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}