Array of post-AT&T mega-mergers may define Trump-era antitrust policy

Published July 10, 2018 4:00am ET



The Justice Department’s unsuccessful attempt to block AT&T’s takeover of Time Warner was the beginning, not the end, of antitrust enforcement in the Trump era.

The agency’s regulators are still considering transformative deals in both the pharmacy and telecommunications sectors as well as additional content-related mergers that have the potential to define the administration’s position on anticompetitive issues as well as upend their respective industries.

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