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rhizome on Aug 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Government seeks to block AT&T & T-Mobile's $39...

Funny that the CWA touts that the deal "will create" 96,000 jobs, not mentioning that that number is the high side estimate resulting from a promise by AT&T to invest $8B in infrastructure. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to estimate how much of that would become reality.

achompas on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

Hah! Hard to believe an acquisition like this would create jobs, especially as AT&T sells it as a "bandwidth/infrastructure acquisition."

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