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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by echelon on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:50PM (#12770012)
> AT&T has reached an agreement to buy TWC. The deal has been neither reviewed nor approved by regulators (yet).

Then let me ask something else.

What is going on with the boards of these two companies? Do they think this will fly? I believe they certainly must.

I assume that the people in charge of these companies are rational and experienced, and that they considered the regulatory hurdles before moving forward with this deal. They must think they can get away with this plan, otherwise why bother with the trouble and expense of setting it up in the first place?

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Re:AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B by rhino369 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @03:03PM (#12770073)
They believe it because it almost certainly will fly. Comcast and NBC/Universal went through and we haven't seen any signs of reduction in competition. Especially now that the FCC has made net neutrality the law, there shouldn't be any fear about vertical monopoly over media.

It's absurd to think that media can be constrained into traditional mediums anymore. Television is dying.

Hell, AOL already did this exact merger without any problems.

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