I agree 100% with everything you said.
There was a time when I thought consolidation of things would be a good thing, but the smaller services seemed to give much better service than the larger consolidated players.
In the US, AT&T at one point had long distance service, local service, and wireless service all under one umbrella. They sold it as one bill, one customer service number, etc, etc. The problem was they never got that going and I had two, sometimes three bills coming from the same company. Then they sold off the wireless business and I just dropped them all (I only have a wireless phone now from a different company).
Anyway for the short term, this is a good thing, especially since, like I said, it helps me.
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