Is this acquisition from cash that AT&T hand or would they go to a bank and work with them for capital?
AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion
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#12There's no way this can pass, especially with the Comcast/Time Warner deal still in process. Maybe this will scare regulators into denying both deals.
Maybe it will scare another 10 or 100k out of a lobbyist.
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#13Is it bad that I read this as 'AT&T to Buy DirecTV for 2.7 WhatsApps?'
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#14The race is officially on!
Can the Telecoms retain their terrible monopolies by becoming streaming providers Faster than the Streaming providers (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime et al) trying to become Content creators?
AT&T is running out of customers to squeeze in the cell phone plans market. This is the next frontier for terrible service, exorbitant prices and regulated monopolies...
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#15Use this as a perfect example to explain to people why Net Neutrality matters. "What incentive does AT&T have to bring you good streaming experience for Netflix, Hulu, or heck even Youtube when they'd much much MUCH rather you were buying DirecTV from them?"
AT&T - and most major ISPs in the USA - already offer TV service. It's true that these consolidations will only give the big players more power, but the conflict of interest already exists.
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#16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Broadband
The cable/telco consolidation 1.0 play.
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#17Is this acquisition from cash that AT&T hand or would they go to a bank and work with them for capital?
$28.50 of the $95/share is cash while the rest is AT&T stock. From the PR release[0], "AT&T intends to finance the cash portion of the transaction through a combination of cash on hand, sale of non-core assets, committed financing facilities and opportunistic debt market transactions."
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#18Do many young people watch TV anymore? It seems like netflix + youtube scratches that itch.
I think it's really shifting away from TV. As a college student, my friends and I have been completely satisfied with Netflix and the like. I can confidently say that there is nearly a 0% chance I'll be getting cable/directv/whatever when I can just get Netflix/Hulu/etc instead.
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#19Think. How would the content providers - any of them, from Disney to Facebook - get their content at the consumer without the data-distributors, from Comcast to AT&T ?
The saying is internet kills the middleman, but this is the real middleman that needs to be killed, and just as our roads are free and open to everyone, so should the digital roads be.
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#20Do many young people watch TV anymore? It seems like netflix + youtube scratches that itch.
I think it's really shifting away from TV. As a college student, my friends and I have been completely satisfied with Netflix and the like. I can confidently say that there is nearly a 0% chance I'll be getting cable/directv/whatever when I can just get Netflix/Hulu/etc instead.
Don't most ISPs make it economically infeasible to get internet services without also getting cable TV? Comcast here bundles servies such that internet only is more expensive than internet + cable.