AT&T admits it 'made a terrible mistake' getting into media business with Discovery deal: analyst

Yahoo Finance2021-05-18

There will be plenty of time for pundits, analysts and investors to diagnose and debate why AT&T (T) couldn't successfully drive value from a media business (then known as Time Warner) it spent a ...

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Nivlek
2021-05-18
Nivlek
ATnT have to stay focus . Time to put it in watchlist.
eddie1981
2021-05-18
eddie1981
Shag
SandDust
2021-05-18
SandDust
Title might be misleading. I actually thought they are pulling out the merger. But upon more study they meant they are unwinding the previous foray into content via Time Warner and prefer now to focus on 5G.
TeckLeong
2021-05-18
TeckLeong
So are they pulling out?
kyawkh
2021-05-18
kyawkh
OMG
henghm
2021-05-18
henghm
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