Tmobile : Can microsoft get the fcc to approve a purchase of tmobile !

[anon(5331912)]

With Google entering broadband internet access TV access satellite internet health and self driving cars . Can Microsoft get away with purchasing tmobile ??? It would be a way to guarantee improved search results and a way to bring back some of there Xbox always on features... I m sure theres more they could do with a tmobile purchase

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Google has been long overdue for a breakup, in my opinion. How they get away with multiple monopolies (especially when other companies get broken up or penalized for looser ones) for so long eludes me.

Also, I'm in the camp of "They wouldn't because it's going to get rejected anyway."

They have reasons, but as they're now an OEM (via Microsoft Mobile, formerly Nokia D&S), they can't get away with a vertical monopoly. (Not until Google stops lobbying lawmakers.)

 

[Michael Alan Goff]

I don't know why Microsoft would buy a company that is losing money anyway in an area they're not going for.

They already bought one company that was losing money, but only because they wanted to keep making Windows Phones.

 

[fatclue_98]

The answer to that would be no. Just like Boeing cannot have its own airline per the Air Mail Act of 1933 or 34, similar legislation has been passed forbidding these types of corporate umbrellas. Remember Ma Bell in '84?

 

[RTGent]

...Remember Ma Bell in '84?

Yes; it was not nearly as bad as Pa Bell in 2014.

 

[anon(5331912)]

So why can google start an internet company , fiber, when they make there money mainly from the internet

 

[RavenSword]

Seems like a weird purchase if it happened.

 

[Jas00555]

"Can Microsoft get the FCC to...."

No matter how you end that, the answer will most likely be no.

 

[fatclue_98]

So why can google start an internet company , fiber, when they make there money mainly from the internet

Google is not an ISP.


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[anony_mouse]

With Google entering broadband internet access TV access satellite internet health and self driving cars . Can Microsoft get away with purchasing tmobile ??? It would be a way to guarantee improved search results and a way to bring back some of there Xbox always on features... I m sure theres more they could do with a tmobile purchase

I doubt that the German government would allow Microsoft to take over Deutsche Telekom.