Cable, Wireless, Dish M&A Could Follow Incentive Auction, Macquarie Analyst Says
Once the broadcast incentive auction is completed, participants barred from transaction talks will likely start up again with possibilities including cable/wireless such as a Comcast/Sprint or Comcast/T-Mobile, wireless/wireless such as T-Mobile/Sprint or some company -- potentially any of the four…
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major wireless operators -- combining with Dish Network, Macquarie analyst Amy Yong wrote investors. Convergence is being driven by AT&T's DirecTV Now and by its pending takeover of Time Warner, as well as by Comcast and Charter Communications having activated their mobile virtual network operators, Yong said. She said that given President-elect Donald Trump's opposition to net neutrality, and a change in chairmanship at the FCC -- potentially in the form of current Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai -- likely "will reflect a similar stance."