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AT&T-BellSouth Merger Grows from Weakness

Mar 08, 2006 | Inside: Business Strategies

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Three years ago, BellSouth CEO Duane Ackerman popped into our offices to tell us how miserable his business was.

Dissing your company is not normal everyday CEO behavior. But Ackerman needed regulatory help from Washington. So he might have been acting like a kid who wakes up on a school day with a sniffle and pleads that he’s caught the bird flu. But still, he certainly convinced me that BellSouth—and the local phone industry in general—was about the suckiest business going.

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