AT&T To Acquire DirecTV For $48 Billion.

AT&T To Acquire DirecTV For $67 Billion

Mergers and acquisition is alive and well.

Ayn Rand would be proud.

Also this will be great for consumers am I right?

If this means I get AT&T in my area I will be ecstatic otherwise here comes another bill increase

... I never noticed that the "direct" on DirecTV isn't really "direct" but direc.

I'm still stuck on the Comcast/Time Warner merger.

"The firm would dominate television and Internet service in 19 of the top 20 markets..."

....

"In arguing for the merger, Comcast officials have repeatedly pointed out that it does not compete with Time Warner Cable in any of the markets that they serve."

There are a number of things rotten with both this deal individually and the state of the telecommunications industry as a whole (which the AT&T merger isn't helping in the slightest).

AT&T should be spending money fixing their god damn internet. Seriously, I've been dealing with those fuckers for a year now, and until I started, I didn't realize that such unstable connections still existed in anything but third-world countries. I had more stable internet half a decade ago, in Alaska. There was a period earlier this year of nearly two months straight where the internet was down for "emergency maintenance" every single night, without fail, for at least 3-4 hours. So-called "emergency maintenance" was regular enough to set a clock by. I'd be playing CS, or watching something online or whatever, my connection would drop, and I'd be like, "it's 11:30 already?" It's been quite a bit better for the last couple months, but I still get blackouts that last for 15 minutes to an hour, at least once a week. So looking forward to moving at the end of this month, and going back to Comcast.

LOL bring on more monopolies!

I wish I had 67 billion to acquire anything.

Does this mean no more "wires are ugly" and "don't sell your hair to a wig shop/show up at your own funeral disguised as a guy name Phil Shiffly/ have your dad get punched over a can of soup" commercial?

I got Comcast for cable anyway. I have AT&T for Internet, Cell phone and regular phone, though probably not for long: AT&T is selling SNET to Frontier Communications company for $2 billion.

@the_bi99man: This is why that Merger happened, so they can offer more broadband in more areas. They knew if they just got DirecTV then they would still lose subscribers out to Netflix. Therefor the want to integrate DirecTV mobile with their plans.

Their plan is to integrate DirecTV, a reliable broadband and your phone bundled in one. Some ISPs should be worried IMO. They will be undercut if AT&T can offer broadband with consistent speeds in vast areas.

That's not "good news"! That's even worse news, as the merger will stifle internet growth more and more! We have to stop it now and save the Internet!

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/att-directv-deal-consumers-union-public-knowledge/

http://www.freepress.net/blog/2014/05/27/merger-mania-not-so-fast

Have you ever noticed the arrow in the FedEX logo? People get paid millions to come up with this stuff.

@br0kenrabbit said:

@4myAmuzumament said:

... I never noticed that the "direct" on DirecTV isn't really "direct" but direc.

Have you ever noticed the arrow in the FedEX logo? People get paid millions to come up with this stuff.

No, I didn't. :o

I should start paying more attention to this stuff for my studies! I hope to get paid millions one day.