AT&T nears deal to buy Time Warner :sadcam:

[Mr. Somebody]

I hope at&t doesn't stop warner brothers from making video games

 

[Trill Bellamy]

uverse is good it just depends on your location. you mean frontier fios ?

why would they block HBO Go ? AT&T wants you do enjoy content any way you like it. mobile, broadband, a la carte....whatever. no other company will be able to deliver content in as many ways as AT&T. fiber to the home, GFast over copper (work in progress), 5G LTE (which may also provide broadband to the home at gigabit speeds), and Satellite....

U Verse finna be gone, get ready for your DirecTV Genie

 

[street heat]

U Verse finna be gone, get ready for your DirecTV Genie

it will be around it will just become legacy. not everyone can get satellite, mainly a lot of people in apartments. just like people want their landline over VOIP youre just going to have to pay more for it.

 

[el_oh_el]

fcc claimed it would make an unfair situation with ATT and Tmobile combining. SMH

Youre saying it in a way which points to you disagreeing with the FCC decision?

 

[David_TheMan]

Youre saying it in a way which points to you disagreeing with the FCC decision?

Yes I disagree with the decision, verizon would have been a close #2 in terms of coverage and userbase after a potential merger.
In general I disagree with government hampering of market forces like this.

 

[Trill Bellamy]

it will be around it will just become legacy. not everyone can get satellite, mainly a lot of people in apartments. just like people want their landline over VOIP youre just going to have to pay more for it.

U Verse is being replaced by the Genie, it will be via IP instead of Satellite

 

[street heat]

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U Verse is being replaced by the Genie, it will be via IP instead of Satellite

basically same thing with a different name but uverse Is also broadband hsia. uverse isn't going anywhere.

 

[Trill Bellamy]

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basically same thing with a different name but uverse Is also broadband hsia. uverse isn't going anywhere.

Okay.

 

[el_oh_el]

Yes I disagree with the decision, verizon would have been a close #2 in terms of coverage and userbase after a potential merger.
In general I disagree with government hampering of market forces like this.

I can understand where you're coming from, but I am the opposite because companies greed usually knows no bounds. Had ATT bought T-Mobile the wireless landscape would look a LOT different right now, and so would my bill...I think T-Mobile coming up in the game is more disruptive than ATT and Vzw playing duopoly tag team on Sprint...

 

[David_TheMan]

I can understand where you're coming from, but I am the opposite because companies greed usually knows no bounds. Had ATT bought T-Mobile the wireless landscape would look a LOT different right now, and so would my bill...I think T-Mobile coming up in the game is more disruptive than ATT and Vzw playing duopoly tag team on Sprint...

I believe T-Mobile and ATT was actually a merger, not a buyout, it was a benefit to both and I think it would have increased competition between Verizon and been on the whole a benefit for consumers.
I'm not scared of corporate greed to beat out others, I'm scared of government regulation that restrict competition by chosing winners and losers, more than corporations who try to get my dollars by offering services.

 

[el_oh_el]

I believe T-Mobile and ATT was actually a merger, not a buyout, it was a benefit to both and I think it would have increased competition between Verizon and been on the whole a benefit for consumers.
I'm not scared of corporate greed to beat out others, I'm scared of government regulation that restrict competition by chosing winners and losers, more than corporations who try to get my dollars by offering services.

History tends to show that corporations, rather than really compete, will instead choose to either implicitly or explicitly collude with regards to keeping prices up..

 

[David_TheMan]

History tends to show that corporations, rather than really compete, will instead choose to either implicitly or explicitly collude with regards to keeping prices up..

only when they have government barriers of entry into the market that allow them to collude, historically.
IMHO

 

[el_oh_el]

only when they have government barriers of entry into the market that allow them to collude, historically.
IMHO

And who are the barriers usually paid by? Its a never ending cycle unfortunately

 

[Woodwerkz]

This is a little off topic but the current At&t Inc is not even the original At&t it's really Southwestern Bell aka SBC which brought out the original At&t in 2005 and then re-branded as the new At&t. Just like At&t Mobility which is the wireless subsidiary of At&t is really Cingular Wireless which was a joint venture of SBC and Bellsouth.Cingular purchased the original At&t wireless in 2004 but when SBC and Bell south merged they decided to re-brand Cingular as At&t Mobility in 2007 because they said At&t had more name recognition even though at the time Cingular was the #1 mobile phone provider.If you type in Cingular on Wikipedia it goes straight to At&t Mobility so it's the same company. Sorry for getting off topic I just read a lot of corporate history and things like this are interesting to me.

They all are linked together...think about it

Bell South...then they merge with SBC and is called Cingular...then AT&T

Bell Atlantic brought Nynex and was Bell Atlantic-Nynex...then merged with GTE...then rebranded as Verizon.

Sprint started out as SPC and this is the core beef between them and the other companies. SPC tried to take away from the Ma Bell monopoly back in the day by offering public service but Ma Bell got the FCC to make them fall back. MCI sued and that opened the door for a GTE and SPC merger which GTE Sprint was made. (Sprint actually stands for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications) Lucky for Sprint GTE keep them as a separate company bc if not they would have been gobbled up long ago.

I remember when Sprint was poised to be the top dog but the FCC blocked the deal with MCI/WorldCom.

So basically 2 of the top wireless companies stem from Ma Bell ...just different paths

 

[David_TheMan]

And who are the barriers usually paid by? Its a never ending cycle unfortunately

To me it doesn't matter who would pay for the barrier, it matters who has the power to make them, if the government didn't have the power to make them, the possibility of being paid off doesn't even matter, its just competition.