OOh, very ATT-esque no? Although completely different companies at the core....ie: one service oriented (ATT) and the other product oriented (Moto). ATT was split up and decades later managed to come back together to be the largest and most powerful telecommunications entity in North America. This could either be a good or bad thing for Moto I suppose, but If Moto is successful in pulling it off the way ATT did (each part slowly merging with other companies *some even being taken over by other companies*, changing, growing and then everything re-merging eventually), perhaps they will come back under one roof a bigger, better(?) company.
That seems possible, the only thing is that AT&T was split up because the US government didn't want a monopoly, so they were forced to split into the baby bells and AT&T, with AT&T controlling the long distance communications and the baby bells controlling the local communications. And back a few years ago, SBC bought the original AT&T and decided to keep the name, and since then have been buying back all the old baby bells, and even cingular wireless. So, you're thought may be a good prediction. :)
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Neoprimal @ Mar 26th 2008 8:32AM
OOh, very ATT-esque no? Although completely different companies at the core....ie: one service oriented (ATT) and the other product oriented (Moto).
ATT was split up and decades later managed to come back together to be the largest and most powerful telecommunications entity in North America. This could either be a good or bad thing for Moto I suppose, but If Moto is successful in pulling it off the way ATT did (each part slowly merging with other companies *some even being taken over by other companies*, changing, growing and then everything re-merging eventually), perhaps they will come back under one roof a bigger, better(?) company.
engadgetier @ Mar 26th 2008 8:53AM
That seems possible, the only thing is that AT&T was split up because the US government didn't want a monopoly, so they were forced to split into the baby bells and AT&T, with AT&T controlling the long distance communications and the baby bells controlling the local communications. And back a few years ago, SBC bought the original AT&T and decided to keep the name, and since then have been buying back all the old baby bells, and even cingular wireless. So, you're thought may be a good prediction. :)