Who’s Buying Whom?The Technologist’s View

What do you think will happen to the following mergers/deals?

AT&T/TCI, AT&T/BT, MCI/WorldCom, BA/GTE, SBC/Ameritech, SBC/SNET…

Two key trends:

Local / ICX integration

Artificial barriers created in 1984
Hampers LAP ability to offer interLATA service

Except out-of-region
Network integration