ARS Technica: Senate probes "unfixable" AT&T/T-Mobile deal

When a Senate antitrust committee hearing is called "The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?", you know that the back-and-forth will be contentious, and today's hearing certainly was.

"When I was a kid," said Senator Al Franken (D-MN), " every Sunday at exactly 9am in Minnesota, my grandmother would call from New York and talk to my father for precisely three minutes." It was the only time the two had to talk, but fortunately "the breakup of Ma Bell forever changed the cost of long-distance service." Now, Franken sees AT&T's $39 billion bid for T-Mobile as an attempt to put Ma Bell back together again.

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