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>the AnitTrust people would have to be really asleep at the wheel for that Call me a pessimist but I think this will go through. Why? The lobbyists already sou
by dba7dba 13y ago
>the AnitTrust people would have to be really asleep at the wheel for that
Call me a pessimist but I think this will go through. Why? The lobbyists already sounded out (lobbied/paid-off/promised-job-in-future) enough people in govt to feel that this will go through, or at least there is enough chance of it happening.
I bet this will go through, especially using the point that they don't compete against each other (which would be stupid reason to accept by AntiTrust people). They were NOT designed to compete against each other in the first place. They were given geographic divisions by regulators for that very reason.
- flavor8 13y ago> The lobbyists already sounded out (lobbied/paid-off/promised-job-in-future) enough people in govt to feel that this will go through, or at least there is enough chance of it happening. I don't think that follows. AT&T / TMobile gave it a shot a couple years ago, and that was shot down.
- dba7dba 13y agoIn the end ATT ended up paying hundreds of millions of dollars as a fine to TMobile. I doubt Comcast would repeat the same mistake. This will largely go through with the ironic claim that they don't compete against each other, when they were NOT designed to compete in the first place.
- gaadd33 13y agoWas that a fine? I thought it was a breakup fee common in merger contracts so that you can't have the other company show you all their internal details then you say "nah nevermind" and you walk away with their roadmap/customer numbers/etc.