Verizon's CEO has said repeatedly that they will never again do unlimited data. They are aggressively forcing the last few remaining grandfathered unlimited data folks off their plans. I'm on VZW and would love unlimited too, but it's a pipedream
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Verizon's CEO has said repeatedly that they will never again do unlimited data. They are aggressively forcing the last few remaining grandfathered unlimited data folks off their plans. I'm on VZW and would love unlimited too, but it's a pipedream
Verizon isn't definitely merging with Charter, they are "interested" in such a deal, but haven't completed (or even started if you ask some people) negotiations, and there's no reason to think that they will. Charter is extremely expensive if someone wants to buy it, and Verizon might be interested in merging with someone else in the same field (like, say, Dish)
And the Comcast MVNO is kind of being done under duress. Verizon would rather not but they agreed several years ago that Comcast could start an MVNO in exchange for Comcast selling Verizon some spectrum. Verizon and Comcast already compete in the video business, so that wouldn't be a new wrinkle if they merged with Dish.
I guess we'll see. Verizon had a disappointing 4th Quarter, and they're starting to come under some pressure to compete on price (finally). Being able to merge with Dish and bundle like the ATT/DTV deal would be nice. I'm just doubtful of it. Verizon's other mergers don't make a lot of sense. Yahoo? Aol? What were they doing there? Hope I'm wrong.
Verizon is gaining about $8.6 billion in a stock deal that transfers their wireline business in 14 states to Frontier.
Not full-blown, everything unlimited data, just unlimited when used for certain services. Verizon in fact does offer "unlimited" data -- for people using the NFL app (I think it's that one). Use it to watch football games (??). They also had some deal with G90 (some video related service that pretty much failed) where data usage was not counted.
I know a lot of people like to hate on Charlie, but the thought of Dish being swallowed up by some other corporate behemoth, especially one of the evil Telco's, just gives me the shivers.
Well, my apologies... My source for the undated ABC News article now tells me the piece is apparently referring to a deal that took place a couple of years ago.
I'm going to love it when they get acquired and whoever buys it screws the company up even more than it already is.
feds probably wouldnt allow a verizon merger, since verizon fios is around.
but in the current environment anything is possible
but in the current environment anything is possible
feds probably wouldnt allow a verizon merger, since verizon fios is around.
but in the current environment anything is possible
They didn't block the AT&T / DirecTV merger even though AT&T had UVerse and the environment was much different as you pointed out.
Its funny...when they did the big split, everyone was all like "Because Merger is coming!!!"
Now, they are re-combining, and everyone is again "Because Merger is coming!!!"
Really? I hadn't noticed.
I think the point is that the former administration would have probably been much harder for any of these mergers to get by than this one will be, and they let that one by.
Yeah, and the new administration is 10000 times more likely to approve a merger like this than the Obama Administration was
Its funny...when they did the big split, everyone was all like "Because Merger is coming!!!"
Now, they are re-combining, and everyone is again "Because Merger is coming!!!"
Yeah, but the world is a lot different now than it was back then. Back then the rationale was probably that the merger partner was likely to be another run at DirecTV
This time, Dish has spectrum (they picked up a little more as part of this deal...Echostar owned part of it) and Sling (Echostar owned part of sling + the technology behind it). Those are both things that Verizon are likely to want. And, with the set top business folded into Dish, they can utilize that within Verizon with FiOS just like AT&T is working towards with U-Verse and DirecTV
As much as I hate Verizon, I would rather see a Merger with them than TMOBILE.
Verizon has an Infrastructure already in place that towers anything Tmobile could dream of .
TMOBILE merger, would be a very Ho Hum merger.
Verizon has an Infrastructure already in place that towers anything Tmobile could dream of .
TMOBILE merger, would be a very Ho Hum merger.
