FTC Chmn. Robert Pitofsky said he didn’t believe his agency had j...
FTC Chmn. Robert Pitofsky said he didn’t believe his agency had jurisdiction to settle Instant Messenger (IM) issue in AOL takeover of Time Warner (TW). He said AOL-TW would be able to reject some ISPs for cable service, but…
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not on ground that it would cut into AOL-TW profit. He said at American Bar Assn. (ABA) Antitrust Litigation and E-Commerce meeting in Washington that space limitations could prevent all ISPs that wanted from getting onto AOL-TW system. Pitofsky said the AOL-TW deal was a 3-level vertical action: (1) AOL on ISP level. (2) TW on content level. (3) TW on cable and broadband level.