After AT&T announced its $85.4 billion merger deal with Time Warner Inc., the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee jumped into action, and said the CEO of AT&T and Time Warner Cable
would testify to explain how the deal wasn't anti-competitive. The trouble is, the committee got their Time Warners wrong. Time Warner Cable is a wholly separate company that runs the cable system
people pay to get their TV service. It has nothing, at all, to do with the AT&T deal with the other Time Warner, that owns CNN, TBS, HBO and other channels. (The panel has corrected its
error.)
Branding problem or political intelligence gap?
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