The recent news that AT&T made a deal to acquire BellSouth has elicited two reactions: one, an assumption that communications prices will go up; and the other, an assumption that prices will go down. It’s always tough to predict exactly what will happen in the marketplace, but the best money will be on the bet that the merger is good for consumers. The communications market isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Consumers used to get their phone services from the phone company and their cable services from the cable company.
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Predicting Communications Prices
Posted by: Sonia Arrison March 10, 2006 05:00 AMThe recent news that AT&T made a deal to acquire BellSouth has elicited two reactions: one, an assumption that communications prices will go up; and the other, an assumption that prices will go down. It’s always tough to predict exactly what will happen in the marketplace, but the best money will be on the bet that the merger is good for consumers. The communications market isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Consumers used to get their phone services from the phone company and their cable services from the cable company.