Makan Delrahim, who has been chosen by the White House to head the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, has said that AT&T's potential $85bn merger with Time Warner doesn't present any "major antitrust problems", despite Donald Trump claiming during his presidential campaign the deal represented "too much concentration of power in the hands of too few". So, but other than that, I haven’t, you know, I haven’t seen any of the facts, yet. The Justice Department's Antitrust Division is currently investigating whether AT&T violated anti-trust laws when it acquired DirecTV, a satellite TV provider, and then forced rivals out of business.
Makan Delrahim, who has been chosen by the White House to head the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, has said that AT&T's potential $85bn merger with Time Warner doesn't present any "major antitrust problems", despite Donald Trump claiming during his presidential campaign the deal represented "too much concentration of power in the hands of too few". The Justice Department's Antitrust Division is currently investigating whether AT&T violated anti-trust laws when it acquired DirecTV, a satellite TV provider, and then forced rivals out of business.