Bad weather on the eastern seaboard delayed the start of the antitrust trial over the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger, but as opening arguments eventually got underway this week one thing became immediately clear: to those involved and their major rivals, this is an incredibly serious business.
The past 17 months since AT&T announced it had agreed to pay $85.4 billion for content giant Time Warner have seen the U.S. divide into two camps. On one side there are those that insist the merger will damage competition and lead to higher prices for consumers, since it brings together Time Warner's significant content assets with AT&…read more on TotalTele.com »