AT&T's gloomy pay-TV business outlook boosts Dish-DirecTV merger likelihood

摘要

A merger between Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH) and DirecTV (NYSE:T) is looking likelier than ever, after the latter's parent AT&T shared a dire outlook for its pay-TV business. "[The merger] will possibly even pass antitrust muster," Mark Lowenstein, managing director of Boston-based telecoms consulting firm Mobile Ecosystem, told Connectivity Business.