Comcast is bad precedent for AT&T, says attorney

Kathryn Haake

13 March 2018

A Time Warner remote

The Department of Justice should question the efficacy of consent decrees and is right to challenge AT&T/Time Warner, said an attorney who acted for clients fighting Comcast after its vertical deal in 2011.

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