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Comments Seen & Heard: AT&T, Time Warner in 'Informal' Merger Talks Newest First \| Oldest First \| Threaded View [close this box] << < Page 4 / 4 afwriter 10/21/2016 5:24:46 PM User Rank Platinum Re: The more things change... I know that the government would never allow for a total monopoly, but that is always where my mind jumps when I hear about company mergers. I'm sure it would be more economical for the two to merge, but I would much rather just see a partnership of some kind. Reply Post Message Messages List Start a Board Login 50% 50% James Warner 10/21/2016 3:00:03 PM User Rank Author Re: The more things change... yep. And a few cellular companies. Has anyone ever done an analysis to see how much money traded hands over the past X number of years and which of these deals have resulted in greater revenue or stock price and how much simply evaporated? I pretty much know the answer to "how many of these resulted in a better customer experience." Reply Post Message Messages List Start a Board Login 50% 50% Mike Robuck 10/21/2016 2:54:04 PM User Rank Author Re: The more things change... Ah, good points Jim. And I'll add MediaOne into that mix as well. Then there was SBC turning into AT&T. Reply Post Message Messages List Start a Board Login 50% 50% James Warner 10/21/2016 2:44:33 PM User Rank Author The more things change... Lest we forget that Comcast (as we know it today) is the result of AT&T selling them AT&T Broadband which was itself created largely from TCI which they bought just a few years before from John Malone. They then started developing and depolying U-Verse as a broadband/"cable" TV replacement. And then of course Direct TV. My calculator doesn't have a wide enough screen to determine how much $$ this all adds up to but competitively, my gut tells me AT&T has spent a few hundred billion the end up where they started 15 years ago. Reply Post Message Messages List Start a Board Login 50% 50% Ariella 10/21/2016 2:12:47 PM User Rank Author AT&T Yes, another indication of the telecom giant's move in the programming direction. But it's all very hush-hush according to the Bloomberg report: "The informal talks with Time Warner executives have been aimed at building relations between the companies rather than establishing the terms of a specific transaction, the people familiar with those discussions said, asking not to be identified as the deliberations are private." The article also mentions that it would likely to take a full 12 months to close the deal. Reply Post Message Messages List Start a Board Login 50% 50% << < Page 4 / 4		Latest Articles Seven Sign Up for Italy's 5G Auction Italy's 5G auction could exceed a government target of raising €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) after attracting interest from companies outside the mobile market. 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