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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
It is absurd to have two companies that do the same thing put each other out of business when one company can be profitable and offer the promiced service.
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This would indeed be absurd if it were how markets are supposed to work - however, this could only happen through a terrible business model (which merging would not alleviate - their debt still carries), so I think I'd prefer the competition.
The anti-trust issues are massive here - remember, the gov't nixed the merger of DirecTV and EchoStar 3 or 4 years ago, which would seem considerably more kosher.