Reply #5: AT&T was broken up because they were too big in 1983

[AndyA]

And now they're going to back to the way they were when they were broken up.

We need more diversity. Oil companies are merging, less competition, gas prices go up. Same for most other industries. The bigger keep getting bigger, and the little guy, the average American, pays more and ends up holding the short straw in the end.