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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (6213)12/14/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: MikeM54321  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Re: Merger of Time Warner and America Online

Thread- Well I recall the morning this deal was announced. Check out 'who wrote' link above to find the exact day almost a year ago. I was pretty excited about it at first. Now I'm not so sure after the government got involved and created thousands of pages of rules.

If you hit this url, you'll find some comments about what we were speculating this whole deal means:
Subject 4754

....Well it's very close to being over after a nightmare of government inspection. I'm listening to the CC the FTC is putting on and just shaking my head. Typical government intervention plan. I can just see the lawsuits flying. Might as well line up all the ISPs and start the lawsuits train. Line up the Interactive players and start a parallel lawsuit train. I just can't get over how pompous the government can be. They sit there with their thousands of pages of terms for the merger to go through and don't care as to the legal morass and delay this nightmare of regulation will create.

'Open access' is just a nightmare. Now it appears they also want AOL/TWX to offer 'open interactive TV' and 'open instant messaging,' they want 'open this' and 'open that.' Open blah, blah, blah. Nice BIG government in-action. Nice motivation for the companies that have to risk billions of dollars to upgrade their infrastructure with the lawsuit train threatening to take it away at every step.

Next it goes to the FCC for their approval and thousands of pages of additional rules that will keep lawyers busy for a long time. -MikeM(From Florida)
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