Editor’s Corner—How AT&T convinced Judge Leon that it and Time Warner need each other to compete with Netflix | FierceCable

Editor’s Corner—How AT&T convinced Judge Leon that it and Time Warner need each other to compete with Netflix | FierceCable

For 20 months, we’ve heard the government, rival programming conglomerates and competing pay TV operators argue the same point: Allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner would harm competition. But they don’t realize that AT&T has its eye on a much bigger threat than the local cableco—namely, Netflix.

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