Outspoken advocates of a two-tiered Internet will soon share a single corporate structure as AT&T will shell out $67 billion to acquire BellSouth. AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre and BellSouth CTO William Smith have demanded from their separate corporate fiefdoms that major Internet players like Google and Microsoft need to pay more for their heavier usage of the networks that get their content to Internet users. Now the two men can spend plenty of time together crafting statements calling for that Also, the Journal cited a Bell-friendly environment within the Bush Administration and the FCC that should lead to a quick rubber-stamping of the merger. Competition with cable and VoIP companies, both providing phone services, look like the points that will enable the FCC to endorse the deal. The aftermath of the deal leaves AT&T and Verizon as the two top telecoms in the United States. Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg is also here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
Net Neutrality Foes To Merge
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