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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 08 2016, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the almost-time-for-another-antitrust-breakup dept.

AT&T and Time Warner were called before Congress today to defend their upcoming $85 billion merger and they played all of the antitrust bingo words in the book. We heard a lot about "investment," "competition," and "innovation" in the two-hour session — but no reasons to believe that this merger is a necessary path to producing any of those things. And bizarrely, AT&T and Time Warner seem to have unwittingly argued against their need to merge.

The testimony was an unexpected vote for the value of an open internet and higher-quality services from ISPs across the board. Their arguments hinged on the idea that offering more innovative services over the internet is a way to better compete with cable companies. But that has nothing to do with a content company becoming part of the network company, and everything to do with the fundamental nature of the internet as an open platform.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13874118/att-time-warner-merger


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  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Thursday December 08 2016, @03:23PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Thursday December 08 2016, @03:23PM (#438744)

    They left the facts un-edited.

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