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Apple 'Not Interested' in Outbidding AT&T to Acquire Time Warner

For those misunderstanding the recent acquisitions:

- "Charter" and "Time Warner Cable": ISP company providing phone, television, and internet access
- "AT&T" and "Time Warner": Content production ownership.

One deals with the delivering of content, one deals with content production and rights. Interesting that two major acquisitions were approved in 2016. That's a game changer.
 
OldSchoolMacGuy said:
AT&T buying Time Warner is bad for everyone.

AT&T's proposed merger with Time Warner is evidence that AT&T doesn't ever plan to invest in fiber to the home, writes Susan Crawford at Backchannel -- and that's just one of many reasons the merger is a catastrophic idea.

Think about it. AT&T sells wires to about 51 million homes, far more than any other telephone or cable company in the country. Because of its large presence in many markets, it overlaps with cable companies in many places -- AT&T overlaps with Comcast in 45 percent of Comcast's footprint and with Charter in 52 percent of its footprint. But, after a flurry of debunked press releases, it's totally clear that AT&T has no real interest in upgrading its copper networks to fiber to the home. Its capital expenditures keep going down, not up. (Would you trust the future to a company that doesn't see the need to increase investments in its core business, and instead is content to harvest profit from its subscribers?)
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Copper to the home is dead. Even Google is giving up on fiber to the home. The future is 5G wireless. More than enough bandwidth for HD Video. They'll fiber to the curb and use 5G from there. That's where AT&T is going.

It's also an end around against Comcast.
 
addictive said:
... Goldman Sachs was "freaking out trying to convince Apple to come in." ...

How about the millions or more likely the tens of millions of dollars GS would have been paid by Apple for hiring them on this M&A activity...
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I agree, Goldman got left out of the party, so it seems like they are just try to generate work for themselves.

Furthermore, these rumors from 'people familiar with the situation', is probably just Goldman Sachs generating drama trying cash in on M&A activities. And, of course, the media (CBNC) will re-broadcast any kind of news that will get them more views.

.... the reality is Apple probably doesn't have nor ever did have any intentions to buying giant cumbersome companies like Time Warner.

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I was hoping they would buy Yahoo and put it back the way it was before Marissa Mayer destroyed it
 
StarkerMann said:
Yet we bought "beats" for a measly $3 billion just to acquire record label rights while agreeing to prominently display Dre's products in retail locations.

$87 billion dollar difference, yet one of those two would serve a much greater long term investment while we're considering cutting "Apple Music" plans due to underperformance with conservative estimates. This would be a big push into the television market that has been a thorn in Jobs' and Cooks' sides for a long time.

Regardless of our involvements, the States is facing numerous "Ma Bell" situations; "Comcast" was denied their "TWC" merger while the "Charter" acquisition was quietly approved this year and AT&T will now own a large portion of programme content. One company providing communications to 75%+ of Stateside residents is pushing against "Net Neutrality" in order to determine what content is "approved" and for how much while another now controls a massive amount of produced content.

Something is not right.
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And Rupert Murdoch's tentacles are running through FAR too many media companies. Heck, the local Fox, and NBC stations are co-owned. Their 'news' is often way to similar...
 
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MillieWales said:
Everything is for sale, it's simply a matter of how much you are willing to pay for it.
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A compay humming along and making money (with an increasing Wall. St. valuation) is not for sale. Only when they hit a period of no growth does a talk of sale come up.
 
Apple won't buy Time Warner but If Dish network can create SLING streaming App that runs on IOS/Android/Windows and AppleTV than why not create similar streaming App with below $30 cost package with add on from $5 like SLING.
 
Macsterguy said:
I have TW internet with 405 Mbps download and 21Mbps up... I don't want AT&T to screw that up!
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Time Warner sold the cable division a long time ago. Time Warner cable is now called Spectrum cable, and has no connection to it's original parent company Time Warner.
 
CartoonCat said:
Time Warner sold the cable division a long time ago. Time Warner cable is now called Spectrum cable, and has no connection to it's original parent company Time Warner.
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The Charter acquisition happened this year. TWC won't officially become "Spectrum" until all area's have been transitioned. Current deadline(s) are February, 2017.

Both AT&T and Charter acquisitions occurred this year.
 
StarkerMann said:
The Charter acquisition happened this year. TWC won't officially become "Spectrum" until all area's have been transitioned. Current deadline(s) are February, 2017.

Both AT&T and Charter acquisitions occurred this year.
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Time Warner Cable has been an entirely independent company using the Time Warner name under license from its former parent Time Warner Communications since march 2009.
 
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