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US: Senate committee on antitrust to ‘carefully examine’ AT&T-Time Warner deal

By  |  October 24, 2016

An acquisition of Time Warner Inc by AT&T could raise significant antitrust issues that the US Senate committee on antitrust would carefully examine, the chairman and ranking member of the committee said Sunday.

AT&T announced on Saturday a deal to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion, the boldest move yet by a telecommunications company to acquire content to stream over its network to attract a growing number of online viewers.

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