Dish: If Comcast Can Buy Time Warner Cable, We Can Buy DirecTV → Sirius & XM, anybody?

Look what happened with Sirius & XM when they merged. Prices are higher now (mostly due to added fees such as the music royalty fee), you have the same content except a handful of channels on each system, and in my opinion a waste of 12.5MHz of spectrum in the nifty 2.3GHz band. They even killed some of the better channels and personalities that XM brought to the table, and changed the focus to the same thing you hear on FM radio everywhere. Sure, it's a little different since they do have to generate their own channels, and Dish/DirecTV are carrying other people's channels, but it's still going to end in the same issue -- higher prices and less choices.

Hate to break it to you but if they weren't allowed to merge neither Sirius or XM would exist right now and that spectrum would have been auctioned off and owned by 1 of the 4 major carriers right now. Or possibly Dish Network which would then sit on it while it decides if it actually wants to use it.