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Conservative Baptists, who maintain that every word of the Bible is literally true, had been consolidating power for a decade as SBC presidents appointed inerrantists to the boards of seminaries and agencies.
Despite heavy investment, America's cable firms boast just 2.6m phone lines dwarfed by the 167m lines that local phone companies such as SBC control.
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Technology itself is smashing the barriers to competition.Seen this way, Mr Whitacre's implicit question how big should SBC be allowed to get?—loses some of its force.
The only way this will get through is with very significant conditioning".Some of this must already have occurred to Mr Whitacre (after all, regulatory counter-offensives are something of an SBC speciality).
The merger would likely shift to this pair of companies many of the 50% of SBC's customers who now use another long-distance carrier.If the AT&T-SBC deal is allowed to go ahead, it would not be quite the disaster it might have been a few years ago; more of a missed opportunity.
In its quarterly earnings this week, the firm's revenue declined and it only eked out a small profit because of asset sales.Together, Verizon and MCI are well placed to compete against a combined SBC-AT&T, as America's telecoms market consolidates.
Output grew by a faster than expected 4.8%, up from 1.9% in the previous quarter.In a belated bow to the late 20th century, Microsoft, Intel and SBC Communications are to be admitted to the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average, which contains only 30 shares.
Why should AT&T/SBC, at something like $50 billion, be so unthinkable?Because it is worse than just big; it is also the wrong pairing.
WHEN Fred Luter, the pastor of a large congregation in a flood-damaged section of New Orleans, assumes the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention SBCC) at its annual meeting in June, it will not be the usual passing of the baton for America's largest Protestant denomination.
Final negotiations for the sale of 30% of Telkom, the state-owned telecommunications monopoly, are taking place with Telekom Malaysia and SBC Communications, an American company.
