SBC Said to Be in Talks to Buy AT&T

This is a horrible, horrible thing. SBC cost the company I work for a direct cost of $1,000.00 that we had to pay another company to do their job, and we had a potential loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars, due to their being a week and a half late getting our e-mail/internet up and running. Their response when we complained was "It's not our problem".