AT&T's price increases the result of billion-dollar merger debt

In the last several years, AT&T has made two huge acquisitions: DirecTV in 2015, and Time Warner in 2018. With these mergers -- which were clearly anti-consumer -- AT&T thought it turn itself from a telecom giant into a cable TV giant, with a near monopoly on the US’s media industry. But instead of just buying itself an undeniable advantage, …