AT&T is 'willing to hold consumers hostage to get what it wants.' Columnist Davidlaz explains:
Meanwhile, more than 12 million Dish Network and Sling TV subscribersto AT&T’s HBO and Cinemax channels because, according to Dish, AT&T wants too much money for its own programming.
“The evidence of his being wrong is bordering on the absurd,” said Christopher Sagers, a professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. “Plain and simple, the merger created for AT&T immense power over consumers,” Andy LeCuyer, Dish’s senior vice president of programming, said in a statement. “CBS appears intent on delaying negotiations until the risk of consumer harm is greater,” Thomas Tyrer, an AT&T spokesman, said in a statement without any sense of irony. “They want to raise prices and limit consumer choice at a time when customers have made it crystal clear they demand the opposite.”
There was once a time when regulators decided AT&T had too much power over the phone industry and decided to break up the company.And not just AT&T. There’s also Comcast, which, along with being the country’s largest cable operator, owns NBCUniversal and all the programming resources of a major movie studio and TV networks.
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