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Anti-trust laws are enforced when and only when the political pressure from people who feel like they're being abused by a monopoly exceeds the political pressure from that monopoly's lobbyists.

Those laws were more enthusiastically enforced then...

Actually, Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T in 2004, and then opted to convert the Cingular brand to AT&T in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless

> And since then, AT&T bought Cingular, now T-Mobile

AT&T didn't buy Cingular per se. In late 2006 AT&T and Bellsouth each owned 50% of Cingular. AT&T got their 50% ownership via SBC. AT&T became sole owner of Cingular by acquiring Bellsouth. That deal closed about Dec 30, 2006 (after many delays getting approval from the FCC). The original iPhone was announced by Apple on January 9, 2007.

I think it works out to the net lobbyist money between a company those on the other side. At least that's what it functions like...