AT&T judge warns parties to hurry to makeJune 21deadline U.S. District Judge Richard Leonon Wednesdaywarned attorneys for the Department of Justice and AT&T Inc. to speed up the trial over the proposed merger of the large telecommunications company and Time Warner Inc., or risk missing theJune 21deadline to complete the deal. Under the agreement, which had been extended fromApril 22, either company can pull out if the deal announced in October 2016 is not completed by the deadline.(Reuters)
AT&T’s Cricket ends test of Adfone’s ‘Ad It Up’ program AT&T’s prepaid brand Cricket has ended a four-month test of an advertising and reward program from startup Adfone. Called “Ad It Up,” the program rewarded users who viewed advertisements with bill credits, prizes and other incentives. “Effective March 30, 2018, the four-month trial of Adfone’s Ad It Up app for a small number of our customers will end,” a Cricket representative confirmed to FierceWireless.(FierceWireless)
US poised to wrap AT&T merger case U.S. antitrust enforcers are set to conclude their case against AT&T Inc.’s proposed takeover of Time Warner Inc. as their economic expert - a critical witness for the government - is scheduled to take the standWednesday. Professor Carl Shapiro from the University of California at Berkeley will testify that AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner would raise costs for pay-TV consumers across the country by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.(Bloomberg)