AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner

Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by class4behavior on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:44PM (#17299620)

The irony is, their monopoly power and the conflicts of interest could be much less worrisome if net neutrality were in place.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by debt on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:33PM (#17299807)

I believe the timing of this was intentional.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by ars on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:01PM (#17299913)

And what are you basing your belief on?

And don't forget this is the entertainment time warner, not the internet service. So I'm curious what intentional timing you found, and how it relates to net neutrality.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by ajmurmann on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:54PM (#17300110)

One of the biggest issues is when companies that should focus on shipping bits for their customers also have incentive to care about what the bits represent. So this being the entertainment Time Warner is what makes this bad. Got slow service with Netflix or worse a tiny player like Mubi? Why not watch magically super fast Time Warner content that doesn't count against your data cap either?

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by ars on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:00PM (#17299906)

Wrong Time Warner. This is the entertainment part, not the internet service.

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by dbatten on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @11:16PM (#17299958)

Parent is correct. The worry is AT&T giving preferential treatment to their new Time Warner content on their own network...

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Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner by coldtea on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:41AM (#17301615)

That's what makes it the right Time Warner. AT&T has the internet/mobile service part already.

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