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		juancferrer on March 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to... Is this why the at&t+T-Mobile merger is being approved?

ascendant on March 21, 2011 [–]

I'm willing to bet that any anti-trust issues that are brought up will be quietly squashed in the name of (A) campaign contributions and (B) increasing the size of the AT&T dragnet.

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