IT sees more promise than peril in AT&T-BellSouth deal

13.03.2006

AT&T's pricing strategy will be watched "very closely" over the next year or two if it succeeds in buying BellSouth, making it harder for the company to try to gouge users, Gibson said. "And hopefully, by having consolidated [operations], their costs will be lower," with the savings then getting passed on to users, he added.

Mitch Betts and Matt Hamblen contributed to this story.