Randall may need a new media strategy, this guy is so lost, Trump’s surprise win in the presidential election, that merger may be dead, he came out strongly against the transaction last month, saying at one rally it was “a deal we will not approve in my administration because it’s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.” Later the same day, his campaign released a statement saying Trump “would never approve such a deal because it concentrates too much power in the hands of the too and powerful few.”
AT&T needs to find new avenues for growth, besides been 250 Billion in Debt, following the long decline in its wired and wireless business. The combination of assets from DirecTV was intended to give AT&T a more diversified revenue base and a strong position to attract Internet video viewers, unfortunately it has been a total fiasco, add the constant layofs and reorgs, this is no the type disruption that Google and Amazone enjoy to be creative and innovative, iit is rather quite the oppsite a company rotting from inside out, My humble recommendation " Stephenson will have to go back to the strategic drawing board" fortunately for him, Even a fool can see What is to come TBC