Tomo certainly has a point – how many times HAS this conglomerate been broken up for breaking anti-trust regulations, most frequently those having to do with monopolies and using them as leverage against your customers? And with this particular stunt, one is even tempted to put them into the category of negotiators as slippery as the old Devil himself (where is Daniel Webster when we need him? Or at least Charlie Daniels). In defense of those who negotiated this deal in the first place, who’s going to be slippery enough in their forethought to anticipate this kind of double-dealing? Had they closed this loophole, AT&T would only have found another. I stopped using AT&T back in the early 90s. And yet, wouldn’t you know it – they’ve managed to co-opt Cingular, my cell phone company (at least for the moment). I can only hope that some of you are right and that the market will eventually correct the chances companies like this have to take advantage of new technology for gouging.