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Comment: DOJ comes out swinging against AT&T-Time Warner arbitration offer

By Curtis Eichelberger ( March 30, 2018, 19:15 GMT | Comment) -- Time Warner tried to resolve the government’s antitrust concerns about its merger with AT&T by offering distributors arbitration and a guarantee of no blackouts whenever they have a price dispute. Although the Department of Justice dismissed the offer out of hand, and it was called “gamesmanship” by one competitor, the judge presiding over the case has agreed to hear more about the offer. DOJ attorneys are concerned enough that they have spent significant time questioning witnesses about it during the first two weeks of the trial, suggesting they might be more concerned about it than they let on.Time Warner’s strategy to settle price disputes with Comcast, Cox, DISH and other distributors by offering them arbitration and a no-blackout policy has worried the US Department of Justice enough that it spent a significant portion of the first two weeks of the trial trying to undermine the companies’ solution to the government’s antitrust concerns....

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