I'm a customer of both the TV and DSL services (by pure coincidence -- I signed up with Telocity before DirecTV bought it). I opposed the merger. I had no idea that something like this would come out of that... and frankly, I still don't see the connection. It sounds more like an excuse than a reason, to me.
The FCC (for once) did define the market correctly in this case. And no, ATT and Comcast shouldn't have been allowed to merge, either.
This is about their DSL service, NOT the satellite Internet services, which are known as "DirecPC" (one-way) and "DirecWay" (two-way). Those will continue to operate. Fat lot of good it will do me, though.:-(
The DSL service was miles apart from the sat services: it had no bandwidth caps, and was very easy to set up on any kind of system (the modem did everything; you could use a simple web browser to set it up).
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DirecPC, the satellite Internet service, remains intact. This only affects the DSL service.
I'm a customer of both the TV and DSL services (by pure coincidence -- I signed up with Telocity before DirecTV bought it). I opposed the merger. I had no idea that something like this would come out of that... and frankly, I still don't see the connection. It sounds more like an excuse than a reason, to me.
The FCC (for once) did define the market correctly in this case. And no, ATT and Comcast shouldn't have been allowed to merge, either.
This is about their DSL service, NOT the satellite Internet services, which are known as "DirecPC" (one-way) and "DirecWay" (two-way). Those will continue to operate. Fat lot of good it will do me, though. :-(
The DSL service was miles apart from the sat services: it had no bandwidth caps, and was very easy to set up on any kind of system (the modem did everything; you could use a simple web browser to set it up).