| Why bother? "Based on apparently no substantive facts of any kind"
Then why bother to cover the story? Linking to the story (one that requires a subscription) only tells them to keep up good work and turn out more crap based on made up facts. |
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| Not gonna happen. AT&T just ditched Dish and went to DirecTV. No way are they going to let Verizon buy up D*. If I were to link to an unsubstantiated rumor, I'd go for an AT&T purchase rather than VZW. |
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join:2003-10-26
Naples, FL
kudos:1 | said by gopnick:Not gonna happen. AT&T just ditched Dish and went to DirecTV. No way are they going to let Verizon buy up D*. If I were to link to an unsubstantiated rumor, I'd go for an AT&T purchase rather than VZW. And this is At&T's decision how? Do they own DTV? If not, they have no control over who purchases it. |
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join:2003-05-11
Poughkeepsie, NY | reply to battleop
Blue horseshoe loves Annacot Steel (or in this case D* TV)  |
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said by Cheese:said by gopnick:Not gonna happen. AT&T just ditched Dish and went to DirecTV. No way are they going to let Verizon buy up D*. If I were to link to an unsubstantiated rumor, I'd go for an AT&T purchase rather than VZW. And this is At&T's decision how? Do they own DTV? If not, they have no control over who purchases it. They *do* have the power to simply buy up all the stock.
OH - and furthermore, AT&T has a rural business plan. VZW does not. |
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said by battleop: Linking to the story (one that requires a subscription) only tells them to keep up good work and turn out more crap based on made up facts. Read the whole story:
»www.google.com/url?q=http://onli···569.html
Since we are all speculating, maybe Qwest can buy DTV. They don't have any viable TV plan at all. This would give them one.
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| Qwest also doesn't have any money. They can barely maintain their rapidly declining network, let alone purchase an asset that doesn't help their landlne or internet business at all. |
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| said by rahvin112:Qwest also doesn't have any money. They can barely maintain their rapidly declining network, let alone purchase an asset that doesn't help their landlne or internet business at all. Since when does not having the money stop a buyout or merger? They can just borrow it and use the assets of DTV as the collateral for the loan. See "Leveraged Buyout".
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| And wall street would slaughter both Qwest's and Liberty Media's stock price for the attempt because the resulting business wouldn't have sufficient assets or revenue to fund continued operations down the road.
That's assuming of course that the banks would lend them the money for a leveraged buy out, that Liberty would go for a price Qwest could afford and that Liberty isn't already so heavily leveraged that a loan against future assets is even viable. IIRC Liberty is already heavily leveraged with near back breaking debt (a result of acquiring directv from Murdoch). IMO the biggest breaker to the deal is that the banks wouldn't lend Qwest the money, they KNOW Qwest has a rapidly declining business that's likely to be in bankruptcy in a few years anyway. Given that corporate lending is still hard to get because of the credit crisis, Qwest's ability to borrow the money is almost non existant without an outside infusion of cash (not a loan).
I personally think there are better chances pigs will evolve to fly before Qwest buys directv. |
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You mean VZ .... VZW is the Wireless Div. |
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VZ should buy Qwest and leave the "turd bird" alone. |
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