AT&T, Time Warner merger brings unique anti-trust concerns

WASHINGTON, November 20, 2017 – Giant telecommunication company AT&T (more than $160 billion in annual sales) still hopes to purchase the Time Warner Company for $85 billion. Most view this merger as primarily a vertical merger, a transaction that typically gets routinely easy approval from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). But, although a similar Comcast-NBC/Universal…