The FCC commissioners remain deadlocked on the AT&T/BellSouth merger and although it is widely believed the merger will happen, it is the conditions placed upon the new company – employing 300,000 employees that has ye to be decided. This article tells us that McDowell may be forced to vote. If he does it will make things very interesting. As you may remember from my previous writings he worked for Comptel and this merger is exactly what he wouldn’t want to happen as a representative of that association.