AT & T uses Obama's political slogan "Win the future" in its merger application

[Enrique]

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/157267-merger-will-help-us-win-the-future-atat-says

AT&T filed its merger application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday, saying its acquisition of T-Mobile will help the country "win the future" by providing 97 percent of the population with speedy mobile broadband connections.

"In his State of the Union address, President Obama noted the strategic importance of broadband in 'winning the future' by 'encouraging American innovation' and maintaining our global competitiveness," the AT&T filing says.

Post-merger broadband deployment by AT&T "will help the U.S. meet these critical priorities."

In hundreds of pages of arguments to an agency that is charged with studying the impact of a combination on the public, AT&T quotes at length from the same president who made a campaign promise to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement.

That's not the Obama promise AT&T focuses on.

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[Exilednight]

1. WTF? Who the hell thought of this stupid slogan?

[monmouth]

2. And who's stealing from who? Did POTUS "borrow" from AT&T or

visa verse. Saw this the other day and got a laugh out of it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Maybe Obama borrowed the phrase from AT&T?

What with the merger between government and corporations, we have no way of knowing.

[JohnnyRingo]

4. "Ask not what your smart phone can do for you..."

"Ask what you can do with $99.99 a month for 4G coverage and unlimited text."
"Can we do this?" "Yes we can".

[Keith Bee]

5. 'twas ever thus

I remember 1980, when Reagan had to change his campaign slogan because it was the same as the name of a laundry detergent. :rofl: