---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20161021233119.GA11247@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:31:19 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Time Warner Deal could happen as early as this weekend By KEACH HAGEY, AMOL SHARMA, DANA CIMILLUCA and THOMAS GRYTA AT&T Inc. is nearing an agreement to buy Time Warner Inc., a deal that would set a milestone in the converging media and telecommunications sectors, and unleash a far-reaching reordering of the industry as rivals are spurred to attempt their own deals. A deal, which could happen as early as this weekend, would unite AT&T's wireless, broadband and satellite TV brands with Time Warner's entertainment empire, which includes cable networks such as TNT, TBS, CNN, the prized HBO channel, and the Warner Bros. film and TV studio. http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-is-in-advanced-talks-to-acquire-time-warner-1477061850 -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161021235252.GA11304@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:52:52 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: AT&T wireless service restored in Louisiana AT&T wireless service was fully restored Friday morning to customers in Ascension Parish who lost it Thursday afternoon after a fiber cable was accidentally cut, a company spokesman said. "Our technicians worked through the night to resolve the issue, and service is currently running normally," Lance Skelly, AT&T spokesman, said in an email 7:02 a.m. Friday. A third party was clearing heavy brush Thursday and cut the line between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Skelly said. http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_c20835f4-9709-11e6-8192-3f15c9e8f082.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20161021232606.GA11167@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:26:06 -0400 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon revenue drops as subscriber additions disappoint By Aishwarya Venugopal and Malathi Nayak Verizon Communications Inc added fewer than expected wireless subscribers in the third quarter due to intense competition, and indicated it may renegotiate a deal to buy Yahoo Inc after a breach of Yahoo user email accounts. As its bread-and-butter wireless operations struggle in a saturated phone market, Verizon had said in July it would buy Yahoo's core business for $4.83 billion to drive growth in advertising and media. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-verizon-results-idUSKCN12K1CV -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 22 Oct 2016