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> Time Warner Cable is not part of Time Warner, so they're not consolidating service providers. AT&T just wants some content production companies. That might b
by haalcion3 10y ago
> Time Warner Cable is not part of Time Warner, so they're not consolidating service providers. AT&T just wants some content production companies.
That might be what they say, but I think it's to compete with Google. While Google may have given up on further fiber rollout after the existing ones, Google still plans to continue to expand and compete with AT&T and other broadband providers but as a wireless provider. Google Fi is just the start. When they bought up Motorola they ended making a better phone themselves (the Pixel). They're using Sprint and T-Mobile for Google Fi now, but plan to become a better wireless data provider.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether these plans will work.
- marcoperaza 10y ago>That might be what they say, but I think it's to compete with Google. That's not how ownership works. It's not "what they say". Either they own the company or they don't...
- heartbreak 10y agoYeah isn't Time Warner Cable now merged with Charter to form what's now referred to simply as Spectrum?
- haalcion3 10y agoRead my response- I wasn't disputing ownership, nor was I disputing the Time Warner.
- haalcion3 10y agoI should have only quoted "AT&T just wants some content production companies" because the rest seems to have confused you. I wasn't disputing ownership.
- marcoperaza 10y agoPlease explain to me how competing with Google's broadband operation fits into all of this, then.
- googler1500 10y agoI think what they were trying to say is that AT&T is buying up Time Warner Cable/Spectrum to own more of the broadband and cellular service markets, such that they can better compete with Google, now offering broadband and Google Fi data service over Sprint and T-Mobile's cellular networks.
- marcoperaza 10y agoAT&T is NOT buying Time Warner Cable/Spectrum.
- jrockway 10y agoAT&T already has a wireline ISP, U-Verse. Google does not produce any TV channels, as far as I know. AT&T is buying Time Warner because Comcast bought NBC/Universal. I'm pretty sure it's as simple as that.