US West takeover bids

["Robert Reese" <robert.reese@mindspring.com>]

Given Mr. Dahlgren's current battle with US West, this story should be
interesting.  US West is apparently the target of not one but TWO takeovers.
One by Global Crossing, an undersea cable owner, and by Qwest, a very new
and very large telecommunications company.  Perhaps a talk with Qwest by Mr.
Dahlgren could be beneficial for his situation in the long term.

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C37740%2C00.html?dd.ne.txt.0614.10

As far as anti-trust, according to this story if Qwest was successful it
could become another AT&T or MCI-sized company.  What is the ramification of
having a so-called "super-carrier" owning a baby bell?  What does this do to
the other mega-mergers? And what is the FTC doing about giant companies
being purchased by massive companies to create gigantic companies?

Personally, I've heard a lot of good things about Qwest, almost nothing
about Global Crossings, and significant amounts of negative stuff about US
West (other than what Mr. Dahlgren has revealed).  This may be good for
those folks currently under US West's thumb.  But what does this mean for
the long term as far as competition and monopolies in telecommunications?

Just wondering.

Robert Reese~
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