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StarOcean on 23 October 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
StarOcean said:

Yeah, the state I live in, Oregon, used to only have one internet provider until recently, I believe

That`s got to really suck. They can charge whatever they want and your only alternative is to just not have internet at all.

The internet here sucks. It cuts off constantly and is only ever partially reliable. It's sad when your phone data is more reliable one thing that sucks about being in the west part of the US, our interet is awful



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HandofPrometheus on 23 October 2016

I wish I had that kind of money to spend damn.



StarOcean on 23 October 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
StarOcean said:

The internet here sucks. It cuts off constantly and is only ever partially reliable. It's sad when your phone data is more reliable one thing that sucks about being in the west part of the US, our interet is awful

Well that sucks. I always thought the west coast was cool, but if their internet is awful...

It is cool! This just happens to be the biggest drawback (imo). Btw do you have any experience with mods on Steam? Message me on my wall XD



NobleTeam360 on 23 October 2016

Hopefully regulators block the deal.



Stefan.De.Machtige on 23 October 2016

People should learn that the time of robber barons never ended. They are now global :(.



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Lrdfancypants on 23 October 2016

I see baby bells in the future again.

I wonder how many are old enough on here to remember AT&T bell breakup.



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Mummelmann on 23 October 2016

That's probably bad, they'll make ridiculous exclusive deals with the ones who are leasing the most bandwidth from them, probably. Service providers and entertainment producers should not one and the same, especially not this size.



catofellow on 23 October 2016

I don't think it'll be that successful. Content distributors are most successful by having all content. Content producers are most successful by being on all platforms. Neither entity can be successful by restricting the options of the other. There is a reason Time Warner split in two in the first place.

Also, how has Comcast - NBC Universal materially changed either business line? We don't see Comcast offering only NBC networks, and we don't see NBC networks only available on Comcast.

I'm not concerned from a monopoly perspective. The only segments that AT&T is or would be the leader in is pay tv and landline phones. These are both declining industries, with new technologies that have more customers. Verizon has more cell phone subscribers than AT&T has landline, and Netflix has more tv subscribers than Uverse/DirectTV.



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Chris Hu on 23 October 2016
HandofPrometheus said:
I wish I had that kind of money to spend damn.

The thing is AT&T doesn't have that kind of money they are going into debt to aquire Time Warner if the deal is approved.



Chris Hu on 23 October 2016
NobleTeam360 said:
Hopefully regulators block the deal.

But when was the last time regulators actually blocked a big deal they didn't do anything about Anheuser-Bush InBev and SABMiller merging and they now control 25% of the worlds beer market (even bigger in NA since the big three Miller, Coors and Budweiser are now owned by one company).