While AT&T’s bid for DirecTV bears similarity to Comcast’s deal for Time Warner Cable, experts say the differences could lead regulators to separate conclusions for each one.
At a hearing of the antitrust subcommittee, some representatives questioned Comcast’s decision after its takeover of NBCUniversal to drop RFD-TV from cable service in two states.
The judiciary panel expressed concern over higher costs for consumers if a merger with Time Warner Cable were approved, but a Comcast executive downplayed the likelihood.
The companies filed documents in support of the plan, which has faced opposition and will be the subject of a Senate hearing this week.
If its acquisition of Time Warner Cable is approved, Comcast will become much more than a regional cable company, says its chief executive, Brian Roberts.
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The country’s recently created telecommunications regulator issued tough new conditions that could break up virtual monopolies in phone service and television broadcasting.
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A big player like the one Comcast and Time Warner intend to create in the United States would probably meet antitrust obstacles on the Continent.
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Officials may seek to break down country-by-country partitions that keep pay TV from being a single market in the European Union.
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Apple will face restrictions in its agreements with publishers, but not the extensive government oversight sought by the Justice Department.
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The publisher and editor of The Las Vegas Sun, Brian Greenspun, is suing to block a deal that could force the newspaper to close.
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After the United States government won an antitrust suit against Apple, it now wants to discipline Apple in other markets where it does business, like movies and music.
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A federal judge’s antitrust finding against Apple over e-book prices underscores how much the book industry has changed and bolsters the advantage held by the online retailer.
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Authorities reportedly want to know if Apple ordered its wholesalers not to deliver some products on time to retailers.
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Eddy Cue, a senior vice president at Apple, denied the government’s charges that the company was working with e-book publishers to raise prices.
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Intel’s plan to create a virtual cable service is running up against a barricade being guarded by cable and satellite distributors.
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The Justice Department has claimed that the publishers used Apple as a conduit to communicate with each other; Apple lawyers have sought to portray the conversations as normal business proceedings.
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The government presented evidence that executives of big book publishing companies discussed raising e-book prices at Apple’s behest before the introduction of the iPad.
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The agreement is subject to court approval. Penguin settled a similar claim with the Justice Department in December.
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The company is scheduled to go to trial in June over the Justice Department’s accusation that it conspired with five publishing houses to fix prices on electronic books.
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Television has thrived on bundling, which offers a way of protecting things but also tends to obscure the weaknesses within. Now those flaws are becoming more apparent.
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