Already growing in Britain, the American digital video distributor will face entrenched local competitors on the Continent — not to mention Amazon.
The French media conglomerate will sell half its Activision Blizzard stake, worth about $866 million, in its latest move to reduce debt and focus on its media properties.
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&T is poised to announce a takeover, people briefed on the matter said on Saturday, ushering in another transformation of the telecommunications industry.
A new company will sell licensed smartphones that allow users unlimited free music downloads, hiding the price of the music in that of the phone.
As more people use their local libraries to connect to the Internet, libraries are requesting funding for better services.
The new theme, “Mobilizing your world,” replaces “Rethink possible.” With AT&T’s advertising budget near $2 billion, those words may be hard to miss.
The companies filed documents in support of the plan, which has faced opposition and will be the subject of a Senate hearing this week.
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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The technology, called pCell, is one of many techniques that companies are looking at to address the rising public appetite for mobile data, especially video.
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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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Questions to consider include the state of wireless 911 service, what happens when the power goes out and consumer protections.
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The F.C.C. has tried to loosen the ownership rule at least three times in the last decade, an effort that has been strongly supported by large media companies.
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The Federal Communications Commission has delayed its auction of broadcast airwaves to mid-2015, a year later than intended.
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The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Tom Wheeler, said the agency would move the nation’s century-old network of circuits, switches and wires toward an Internet-based system.
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to eliminate the 20 percent of long-distance landline calls that go astray.
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After Hurricane Sandy, Verizon said it was too expensive to replace landlines in Mantoloking. The move may presage the end of the lines across the nation.
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Comcast’s second-quarter earnings rose to $1.7 billion, exceeding analysts’ estimates, helped by the continued growth of the company’s broadband Internet and business products.
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The Federal Communications Commission wants to fix E-Rate, a program to give schools telecommunications services, which has been criticized for not keeping up with modern technology.
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A lawyer told the Federal Communications Commission that Verizon might have collected more than $240 million from false charges, more than four times the amount it agreed to refund.
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