North Carolina is an important market to us. It is our second-largest state with 1.5 million customers. Florida is the largest with 7.5 million customers. |
The competitive environment remains intense. |
This is a company that will be aggressive and innovative in the marketplace. |
This merger is a natural. With Vanguard Cellular, AT&T can significantly increase its footprint in the eastern U.S., providing additional service offers and availability to our customers. |
We think customers who are spending forty or fifty dollars a month now will move up to the eighty-to-ninety dollar range and use this as their (main) phone. |
With Lucent as one of our strategic vendors we will maintain our market leadership in our deployment of wireless voice and data services. |