Meanwhile, more than 12 million Dish Network and Sling TV subscribersto AT&T’s HBO and Cinemax channels because, according to Dish, AT&T wants too much money for its own programming.
“The evidence of his being wrong is bordering on the absurd,” said Christopher Sagers, a professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. “Plain and simple, the merger created for AT&T immense power over consumers,” Andy LeCuyer, Dish’s senior vice president of programming, said in a statement. “CBS appears intent on delaying negotiations until the risk of consumer harm is greater,” Thomas Tyrer, an AT&T spokesman, said in a statement without any sense of irony. “They want to raise prices and limit consumer choice at a time when customers have made it crystal clear they demand the opposite.”
There was once a time when regulators decided AT&T had too much power over the phone industry and decided to break up the company.And not just AT&T. There’s also Comcast, which, along with being the country’s largest cable operator, owns NBCUniversal and all the programming resources of a major movie studio and TV networks.
Davidlaz This is what happens when a company like AT&T saddles itself with a huge amount of debt by purchasing 2 other companies (DirectTV & Time Warner). They start gouging their customers to service their debt.
Davidlaz No light bulb going “on “above your head ?You are in the process of being destroyed by streaming. Dah !Anyone conscious in your world ?
Davidlaz Alternative headline: Major content providers look to boost record profits at the expense of consumers
Davidlaz Break up AT&T. HawleyMO