AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner

Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by s2g on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @08:12PM (#17299218)

This is a major net neutrality issue.

AT&T can now say all of time warner's content is free for mobile devices. Major blow to their competitors.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by LateRuin on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:06AM (#17300921)

Sounds pro-consumer to me. Whats the big deal? It will just force the other providers to up their game and offer their own freebies.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by icebraining on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:51AM (#17301135)

Great if you like the provider's content. Quite bad if you like any content not owned by one of the few Internet providers, who can't offer such freebies.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by LateRuin on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @06:16PM (#17307473)

Everyone agrees we are moving towards a world of platforms. Each big platform holder will buy or ally with an isp and smaller content owners will pay 30% rev to use those platforms, just like today with google play store, app store, steam (for games), etc. thats reality, why be a luddite about it?

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by Spivak on Thursday June 14, 2018 @11:25AM (#17312373)

Since ATT has to eat the costs of providing this service I don't see how it's necessarily a problem.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by scarface74 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @12:09AM (#17300171)

They are already doing that with DirecTVNow.

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