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From The Expert Corner

September 07, 2011

Retroactive vs. Radioactive Rule Making

By Carl Ford

Partner, Crossfire Media

If AT&T and T-Mobile successfully merge after the DOJ and FCC came out against the plan, I will send them a Boston Red Sox “Why Not Us” T-Shirt from when they defeated the Yankees in the AL championship and went on to win the World Series.

Retroactive
I say this because the statements being made by people about the merger are somewhat like “The Curse of the Bambino” with decades of superstition being applied to AT&T’s Death Star Logo. One of the message boards I frequent compared AT&T to the Leave it Beaver character “Eddie Haskell” who would go from being a nice guy in front of the parents to being a schemer with his peers. That show ended in 1963 and through re-runs people from the 70s may have seen it, but clearly the metaphor is old... Read More

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6 Billion Reasons for AT&T to get the Deal Done

September 2, 2011

By: Rich Tehrani

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