| Does anyone think the deal will face trouble with regulators Yes, I think it would face a tough look from regulators if they decide to go forward with this deal. Especially, if in November, the Dems win the White House AND also expand their control of Congress. BIG MERGERS will face a tough time - at least for awhile and until the industry lobbyists get their hooks deep in to a new administration. And that usually takes a year or so.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:Yes, I think it would face a tough look from regulators if they decide to go forward with this deal. Especially, if in November, the Dems win the White House AND also expand their control of Congress. BIG MERGERS will face a tough time - at least for awhile and until the industry lobbyists get their hooks deep in to a new administration. And that usually takes a year or so. I have a feeling Obama will warm up to lobbyists quickly when he (unfortunately) wins. Either way, I hope this faces a tough time. Personally I think there have been too many mergers in the past 5+ years especially in the telecom industry.
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This is pretty much the last chance for mergers to go through the Bush Administration, considering the time-frame- if this is going to happen it'll probably be very, very soon- same with any MSFT-YHOO, S-DT, etc... The uncertainty of a new administration complicates everything. |
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It will be approved. They'll be some noise about open access requirements and yadda yadda but in the end it will be approved and any "requirements" imposed will have easy to get around loopholes.
The only thing that could screw it up is if at&t comes in against it and uses their lobbying arm to cause problems for Verizon.
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