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Old 10-22-2016, 01:54 PM  
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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


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Old 06-12-2018, 06:39 PM   #46
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They want that advertising revenue. Two ways to acquire the eyeballs I suppose.. content or the pipe. They're maybe focusing more on the latter. Seems to make sense as the content side is getting flooded by new huge money players like Apple and Amazon.
The ad revenue was the primary reason for the acquisitions, yes. As far as focus, I think you’re right.
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Old 06-12-2018, 06:55 PM   #47
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If it goes through, one of the first things AT&T will do is lay off a bunch of Time Warner employees. Those bastards hate employees almost as much as they hate their customers.
Yeah and they will **** it up like they have DTV that used to be a nice company to deal with.
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Old 06-12-2018, 06:58 PM   #48
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Yeah and they will **** it up like they have DTV that used to be a nice company to deal with.
DTV was great back in the late 90’s. Their customer service hasn’t been good for years, long before AT&T bought them.
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Old 06-12-2018, 07:24 PM   #49
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AT&T still has UVerse, but they are pushing new customers to DirectTV.

Yes, it became expensive to trench and they had lots of technical difficulties with the 'last mile" old copper pipes.

Google Fiber is scaling back as well and looking for a last mile wireless solution because of the expense of trenching cable and all the red tape they have had to cut thru.
Even Google cant beat market costs for that last mile. They have a shit ton of cash to spend but why on solving the last mile? They got a huge pile of money by not being stupid. Wireless is the future, not cables.
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Old 06-12-2018, 07:26 PM   #50
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Combine forces and customer service becomes twice as bad.


Figures.
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Old 06-13-2018, 02:51 PM   #51
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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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Old 06-13-2018, 03:14 PM   #52
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Yeah and they will **** it up like they have DTV that used to be a nice company to deal with.
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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Old 06-13-2018, 06:29 PM   #53
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Welcome to Ajit Pai’s FCC.
Not sure how you can say that when the government opposed it.
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Old 06-13-2018, 07:06 PM   #54
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Not sure how you can say that when the government opposed it.
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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Old 06-13-2018, 07:30 PM   #55
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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.
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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Old 06-13-2018, 07:41 PM   #56
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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.
Uh, not necessarily.

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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Uh, not necessarily.

The Government could have still "won" while letting the merger happen, forcing ATT to do certain things for the deal to be approved.
The government's base argument was against the merger...I suppose they could have spun a modified agreement as a "win".

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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The government's base argument was against the merger...I suppose they could have spun a modified agreement as a "win".

Does not really matter, it is not a good thing for customers overall. More options the better, but it is what it is.
it doesn’t have to be “it is what it is”. We broke up Ma bell because it was constraining invoation and competition.

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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