Looks like AT&T is one step closer to owning the world.

The Supremes -- will Diana Ross be there?

 

I remember a high school teacher told me over 50 years ago that in the future only a handful of corporations will own 90% of everything. Our choices will be limited.

 

Same here. I had a Science teacher who told us that in the future 5 companies will own all businesses in the world.

 

no, not that Supremes, it's the one with a woman who's not ready to retire yet and a drunk guy who loves beer and may had done some horrible perverted stuff in his college days allegedly.

but on my personal thoughths on this update on AT&T/Warner Media merger being reenforced, i think AT&T isn't happy until they are the ones controlling the world. now all they need is to make a larger company by buying out Walmart, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and maybe ExxonMobil, and all the biggest phramaceutical company at the same time (which is a very unlikely thing to happened, but i only names those companies off to hammer the point of AT&T's world domination plan).

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No more appeals...

"We are grateful that the Court of Appeals considered our objections to the District Court opinion. The department has no plans to seek further review," Justice Department spokesman Jeremy Edwards said in a statement.

UPDATE 7-US Justice Dept will not appeal AT&T, Time Warner merger after court loss

 

I would urge people who who are upset by this to actually read the Circuit Court's opinion. I have. AT&T has legally bound itself into what is calls "baseball style arbitration" in ANY dispute with ANY provider over ANY channel. "Baseball style arbitration" means total binding arbitration, meaning AT&T must accept and the provider must pay whatever the arbitrator says. No exceptions.

This merger is very good for consumers. Having the same company in the provider and producer is good.

 

It's very good for AT&T and its shareholders... Not so much for those that don't want AT&T as their provider.

 

Again, read the decision. Unlike every other vertical producer-provider (including the Great Satan, Comcast) AT&T is legally bound to "baseball style arbitration" with every provider.

AT&T is not going to use channel access to drive people to AT&T or DirecTV. It business model is the exact opposite, to make channel content everybody wants, and which they thus can sell to every provider. At a fair price, as determined by an impartial arbitrator if needed.

It is good to have companies be both producers and providers. It protects the consumer.

 

So you're saying that DTV and their subscribers won't get a better deal on HBO and TW content than anyone else? Really?

 

Not me. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

 

I don't think it's unrealistic to expect DTV will get more favorable treatment from HBO and TW than competitors. The problem will be how to prove that to an arbitrator.

 

The absence of AT&T-owned Home Box Office from Dish Network is no sad loss to me.

 

This might be our future with the disputes left and right with all carriers, the subscriber may be left to get their programing on their own as many of us have done with HBO and Univision. At least with streaming, the options are better. Used to be Dish/Direct/Cable would lose a channel, and unless we wanted to jump ship for another, we had to do without the channels. All services aren't available for streaming as yet, but it is on the way. I just hope high speed gets nationwide in time to cover everybody.

 

I hope this is true, but if this is the case, when does HBO go to arbitration?

And a bigger question for us Dish customers: When does the carriage agreements for the Turner channels end? In the current environment I see little to no chance of TNT, TBS, CNN and the likes remaining on Dish now that they're owned by AT&T. I hope I'm wrong and would love it if arbitration help us keep some of the AT&T owned channels into the future.

By the way, HBO CEO and Turner president have both resigned today.

 

Smells like "unfair" competition to me. Pay me what I want or out the door you go. Sound familiar? This is not AT&T's first rodeo show...