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batye
10/26/2016 9:31:27 PM
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Re: It's happening
@mpouraryan interesting point, but it life in IT field/technology... but it would be interesting to see how everything get played out...
mpouraryan
10/27/2016 12:06:55 AM
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Re: It's happening
Thanks as always @batye for your perspective--the roadmap is pretty challenging right now. What I found especially interesting is how AT&T is repositioning DirectTV with the 100-Channel Offering. It is going to get even more challenging.
batye
10/27/2016 12:14:28 AM
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Re: It's happening
@mpouraryan :) it not gonna be simple nor easy - but interesting :)
mpouraryan
10/27/2016 12:18:07 AM
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Re: It's happening
What you note as "Interesting" may in fact be detrimental to customer and customer choice--at the heart of the challenge that is before regulators. But even the major players have challenges--for instance Google Fiber (that I was looking forward to seeing here in Southern California) has scaled back--which means that being "big" is not necessarily being better....
mpouraryan
10/27/2016 12:18:08 AM
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Re: It's happening
What you note as "Interesting" may in fact be detrimental to customer and customer choice--at the heart of the challenge that is before regulators. But even the major players have challenges--for instance Google Fiber (that I was looking forward to seeing here in Southern California) has scaled back--which means that being "big" is not necessarily being better....
mpouraryan
10/27/2016 12:19:44 AM
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..and to add to that, I view what Farhad M. of the New York Times underscored a few days ago goes to the heart of the case against (and why markets seem to not like this merger)--but as you noted, it is going to be interesting:
https://technologyjobsnyc.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/att-time-warner-deal-is-a-strike-in-the-dark-by-farhad-manjoo/
elizabethv
10/29/2016 9:41:40 AM
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@mpouraryan - That's a really interesting article. And I think the idea might be exactly right - in the face of an uncertain future, they want to tie their rafts together and hope that together they can weather the storm better than they would apart. I still think it's a terrible idea for the rest of the country, but I suppose I can understand their perspective.
freehe
10/29/2016 3:48:34 PM
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AT&T Time Warner Informal Merger
They say two heads are better than one. Time will time if this is true for these two companies. Interested to see the new products and services that will be offered to residential customers, pricing and the price structure (contract, no-contract, month-to-month). We will have to wait and see what happens. This merger will be interesting and is unpredented especially during an election year.
mpouraryan
10/29/2016 7:22:14 PM
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It is certainly going to be interesting to see where it all goes. It will take at least a year before everything is sorted out--the key question is whether the customers will be "embraced" or not. In the meantime, things like the new DirecTV offering is fascinating to look at--and the cross-selling already happening (as epitomized by what AT&T has done in giving away an iPhone 7). How far we've come!!
mpouraryan
10/29/2016 7:24:19 PM
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Re: AT&T Time Warner Informal Merger
Bold Moves are the very nature of business itself. What will be fascinating it AT&T does, for instance, what Reliance in India has done with offering 4G service as part of its' cross-selling process. It will be indeed fascinating to be witness to it all:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/06/technology/india-reliance-jio-4g-internet/index.html
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