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1 Telecom Mergers & Acquisitions Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers Annual Summer Conference Bass River, Cape Cod June 20, 2007 Gary J. McCabe, CAE

2 AT&T (The Bell System) 1984 Split AT&T Corp. (Long Distance) RBOC s (Baby) Bells Ameritech Bell Atlantic BellSouth NYNEX (incl. New England Telephone*) Pacific Telesis Southwestern Bell US West (Qwest) Alexander Graham Bell * Prior to 1984 AT&T owned 86% of New England Telephone 2

3 The Baby Bells Today BellSouth SBC Communications, which owns Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, Ameritech, SNET (and is now called "AT&T" (incl. AT&T longdistance) Verizon, which owns Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, & GTE (and MCI longdistance) Qwest, which now owns US West 3

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5 AT&T Wireless History Part of AT&T Corp. until 7/9/2001 October 2004 Cingular Wireless LLC acquired AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. Combined company renamed as New Cingular Wireless Services LLC & restated the market value of their assets. Cingular wireless was owned by Bell South (40%) & SBC Communications [Southwestern Bell] (60%) SBC acquired AT&T Corp. in 2006 for $41b & renamed New Cingular Wireless to AT&T Mobility 5

6 AT&T Wireless; Massachusetts Values FY2004 FY2005* FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 AT&T Wireless PCS* 165,890, ,300 Southwestern Bell Mobile (SBC) 177,128, ,842,200 New Cingular Wireless PCS 276,255, ,741, ,298,400 Company Totals 343,019, ,078, ,255, ,741, ,298,400 Delta 43% 42% 20% 9% * AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. 6

7 Bell Atlantic Mobile/ Verizon Wireless Bell Atlantic merged with NYNEX in 1997 Acquired GTE in 2000 changed name to Verizon Communications (Veritas Horizon) Wireless company named; Bell AtlanticNYNEX Mobile UKbased Vodafone AirTouch Plc (now Vodafone Group Plc) announced that they had agreed to create a new wireless business with a national footprint, a single brand and a common digital technology composed of Bell Atlantic's and Vodafone's U.S. wireless assets (Bell Atlantic Mobile, AirTouch Cellular, PrimeCo Personal Communications and AirTouch Paging). This wireless joint venture received regulatory approval in six months, and began operations as Verizon Wireless on April 4,

8 SprintNextel History Sprint began as Brown Telephone Co. in Abilene, KS 1980 s entered U.S. longdistance market with 1 st 100% fiberoptic cable network 1990 s merged with Centel to offer local & longdistance service. Late 1990 s expanded serviced to include wireless PCS Acquired Nextel Communications in 2005 for $41.5b 8

9 SprintNextel Mass. Companies Sprint Communications Co. LP [landline] Are their switches taxable? Sprint Spectrum LP (Sprint PCS) [wireless] Are their switches taxable? Nextel Communications of the MidAtlantic, Inc. [wireless] Are their switches taxable? MASSPCSCO (Sprint Spectrum Equipment Co. LP) MASSFONCO [Sprint leasing companies] 9

10 Omnipoint Communications (TMobile) Omnipoint Communications, Inc. Is a subsidiary of TMobile USA Which is a subsidiary of TMobile International Which is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG Omnipoint Holdings, Inc. converted their name & structure to TMobile Northeast LLC in 1/2005 What company owns the MA network? 10

11 Level 3 Communications LLC Level 3 supports its customers across multiple Groups: Level 3 Wholesale Markets serves national and global service providers with integrated data, voice, and video services across one of the world s largest, mostmodern networks. Level 3 Content Markets combines broadcast and advertising distribution services with traditional Internet services to help richmedia content providers operate at a huge scale among multiple destinations. Level 3 Business Markets connects regional enterprises, local service providers, and regional carriers with highavailability, nationwide network access and highperformance data, voice and Internet solutions. 11

12 Teleport Communications Group Inc. subsidiary of AT&T Teleport Communications Group Inc., provides range of telecommunications services in major metropolitan markets nation wide. The company provides integrated telecommunications services; voice, data & video, primarily over fiber optic digital networks. The company's customers are primarily telecommunications intensive businesses, hospitals, educational institutions, governmental agencies, long distance carriers and internet service providers. 12

13 I gotta go, I m in a meeting. 13

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