AT&T, Dish have a problem with Charter-TWC merger – surprise!

US telecom giants AT&T and Dish Network are asking the FCC to hold off on approving the $78.7bn merger of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable (TWC). In separate filings with the US communications regulator, the two companies claimed the proposed tie-up could damage competition in the US. Both companies alleged that …

[Dadmin]

Help, competition is hurting our monopoly!

Well, good luck to you AT&T and Dish. I am a customer of both, but not for very much longer. AT&T is more than happy to siphon all data and hand it over to the government, without due process. And Dish is run by a known fuckface, cultivating a workplace of fear, and quite frankly they charge too much for a piss-poor service where; I still get adverts even though I'm paying for shows not fucking adverts, no ala cart channels, DVR times are off and surprise; you can't just skip adverts, only jump around like a fucking idiot, and the price is outrageous when they are still making money feeding adverts to my home.

The whole of cable and satellite TV is a sham! When I pay for something, I expect to NOT get extra advertisements, unless I am getting a cut of the cash or they offer the content for free like in the Olden Days®. Nope, Dish/DirecTV and all cable operators keep the advertising dollars they get, keep my payment, keep the channels uninteresting and full of more adverts, keep the package deals where shit channels get to live and good channels suffer. What a fucking load of crap. I have my OpenELEC, my super RaspberryPi NFS for 1.5TB of my own content, commercial free. And then upgrade my home Internet and start using the commercial free Hulu and perhaps dip my toe into Netflix. The time is nigh for cutting to cord! *snip* *snip*

[cyke1]

" the two companies claimed the proposed tie-up could damage competition in the US."

Yes charter and TWC are not competeing in same markets, but AT&T and directv did compete in same markets. SO how does 1 that doesn't compete directly with each other more damaging to competition then 2 that merged that did?

Sounds like a certain group of people in this country that complain about someone elses doing but ignores they do same thing they whine that someone else does.