The government’s key expert witness in its antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner had trouble Tuesday defending his analysis that the merger will raise consumer prices for pay-TV subscribers by $571 million by 2021.
Read moreAT&T’s chief executive Randall Stephenson rigorously defended his company’s proposed $85 billion merger with Time Warner on Thursday, calling the government’s argument that it would harm competition “absurd.”
Read moreTime Warner’s chief executive forcefully defended his company’s proposed $85 billion merger with AT&T on the witness stand Wednesday, arguing that the company will fall behind innovative competitors without it.
Read moreGovernment attorneys turned up the heat Monday on an economist who testified in support of AT&T’s proposed $85 billion buyout of Time Warner.
Read moreThe U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger reached its apex Wednesday as its key expert witness testified the merger would cost consumers hundreds of millions annually.
Read moreBuilding its antitrust case over AT&T’s proposed buyout of Time Warner, government attorneys elicited testimony from one of the cable company’s own executives about benefits of a merger.
Read moreAT&T flipped the script on a Dish Network executive in the courtroom Tuesday, using statements from Dish chairman Charlie Ergen to undercut a key claim by Dish that AT&T’s merger with Time Warner will hurt it.
Read moreThe federal judge overseeing the government’s antitrust case to block the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger cautioned attorneys on both sides Monday, after it was revealed that a government witness received transcripts of opening arguments and prior witness testimony before he testified.
Read moreOpening arguments in the federal government’s case to block AT&T’s efforts to gobble up Time Warner have been postponed until Thursday.
Read moreAgreeing to reconsider his order to arbitrate customers’ data-throttling claims against AT&T, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled only one of the four named plaintiffs – the one not from California – needs to submit to arbitration.
Read moreA gambit to have the Ninth Circuit review en banc the Federal Trade Commission’s authority over telecommunications companies paid off in a major legal victory for the commission’s dispute with AT&T.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday rejected AT&T’s bid to force the Justice Department to release information the telecom giant says could shed light on whether the Trump administration is behind a government effort to block its merger with Time Warner.
Read moreThe Department of Justice on Monday filed an antitrust lawsuit against media giants AT&T and Time Warner in an attempt to block their proposed $85 billion merger.
Read moreTelecom giant AT&T and the federal agency that apparently regulates wide swaths of the U.S. economy returned to the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday, rehashing arguments in front of a wider panoply of judges.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will revisit en banc its panel’s finding that AT&T Mobility is exempt from the Federal Trade Commission’s charges of data throttling, according to an order issued by Chief Circuit Judge Sidney Thomas on Tuesday.
Read moreAfter their home burned down on Feb. 14, 2017, four people claim in court that the fire spread from a Pantech cellphone, which exploded while connected to a charger built for the Samsung Galaxy S6.
Read moreThe European Commission on Wednesday approved a planned merger of Time Warner and AT&T, finding “no overlaps between the parties’ activities in the European economic area.”
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Monday dealt a final blow to a career prosecutor whose whistleblower lawsuit claimed the nation’s largest telecommunications provider bilked the federal government for surveillance services for two decades.
Read moreA federal judge told attorneys for Apple on Tuesday that its definition of “aftermarket” doesn’t stack up in an antitrust class action over its iPhone exclusivity deal with AT&T.
Read moreSenators grilled executive heads of AT&T and Time Warner – and even billionaire Mark Cuban – Wednesday over the companies’ proposed $85.4 billion merger.
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