This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and ‘guaranteed this, guaranteed that,’ they should be willing to pay for that.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

We’re going to be hard after the international business because AT&T has not used its name, influence and expertise. We think we can do that and do it well.

This is a superior management team. They are the best in the industry, and I am confident they will do an outstanding job at this critical time in our company’s history,

I can’t forecast where our stock will be, but I’d be hard pressed to tell you any hole we have in our assets. It’s about execution now.

This is the brand that will lead the industry in delivering the next generation of communications and entertainment services,

It was the right thing for the company,

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

This merger is a logical next step.

We literally have hundreds of competitors coming in every day; it’s nothing like the old days. If we’re going to have the strength to compete, we better get our companies together.

It’s a realization that the world is changing and it’s changing faster and faster. We saw that the sooner we did this, the better off we’d be.

There’s been a lot of talk about this in order to scare people into thinking that access to the Internet is somehow at risk, or that the Internet as we know it is a thing...