Was it worth it?

So AT&T announced it is buying BellSouth Corp, which puts it pretty close to being the old Ma Bell telephone system according to a small article in the Wisconsin State Journal. It would give the company 70 million local-line customers, 54.1 million wireless subscribers and about 10 million broadband subscribers.

So if Ma Bell is back, was it really worth all of those annoying telemarketing calls we got for years after the company was broken up? Do you remember how many of those calls we used to get before the no-call list? Hardly seems worth it if the monopoly is back.