While regulators and a federal judge ponder that question, the great disrupter -- Amazon -- is already raising prices. (The pay-TV market has traditionally included subscription TV providers, including cable and satellite, but not over-the-internet providers like Amazon and Netflix.) AT&T sees Netflix, YouTube and Amazon as "the wolves at the door," said Scott Hemphill, an antitrust expert at the New York University School of Law. Time Warner's content companies, like HBO, CNN and the Turner channels, "are just islands of content unmoored from the consumer", he said. If Judge Leon does take such an expanded view of the market, AT&T and Time Warner would most likely prevail.

Source: Bangkok Post May 04, 2018 23:03 UTC