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AT&T buys Time Warner for $80 billion
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AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for more than $80 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Saturday http://nyti.ms/2eizEKW Uh oh |
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The ad revenue was the primary reason for the acquisitions, yes. As far as focus, I think you’re right.
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Combine forces and customer service becomes twice as bad.
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And of course every othe huge conglomerate wants to get bigger and lessen choice for us lowly consumers.
Comcast battles Disney for Fox. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wi...d-fox-55873374
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I always try to call and get a Directv employee instead of AT&T. The original Directv employees are pretty decent, but ma bell forces their employees to take giant shots on the customer as much as possible. It’s only a matter of time before they start laying off Time Warner employees and replacing them with their own lifeless drones.
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Not sure how you can say that when the government opposed it.
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Not true. They wanted midificTions to the agreement, not kill it. Specifically they wanted CNN sold as a stand alone station.
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Umm.....if the government would have won it's court argument there would have been no merger....that seems to be opposed to me.
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The Government could have still "won" while letting the merger happen, forcing ATT to do certain things for the deal to be approved. |
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Does not really matter, it is not a good thing for customers overall. More options the better, but it is what it is.
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Everyone knows that having all this power concentrated in just a few companies means less choice and higher prices for all of us. It Stifles innovation and prevents progress if there was competition between companies.
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Less than a week after it’s finalized. The hostage taking starts.
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