Telecom:To Buy or To Build?

摘要

THERE'S A GREAT debate among telecom industry leaders these days.Driving the industry consolidation are leaders like SBC Communications Chief Executive Edward E.Whitacre Jr.who see deal-making as the best way to grow quickly.That explains the flurry of talks to buy longdistance companies' still-lucrative yet shrinking business of providing telecom services to big corporate and government customers-the so-called enterprise market.