On Monday, it’s Vodafone-AirTouch. Wednesday, it’s SBC-Comcast. Friday must mean
BellSouth.
(Actually, it’s Thursday as I write this so if anything has happened to BellSouth, I should be on Wall
Street instead of here).
What about BellSouth? And Nextel? And Omnipoint?
Carriers keep talking about
national footprints and global muscle, but in this rapidly shrinking wireless market, who is left to acquire and are they
worth much?
RCR’s 1998 Top 20 cellular list reads more like a list of “Who’s Not” rather than
“Who’s Hot.” Five of the top 10 companies already are gone or soon will be (GTE, AirTouch, Ameritech,
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