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Comcast Sponsors Honors Dinner for Commissioner During Merger Review

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the crooks-and-liars dept.

tt1016268 writes:

Comcast will pay $110,000 to sponsor a major dinner honoring FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn at the same time the regulator is considering whether to approve the cable company's application to acquire Time Warner Cable.

In a barely noticed Senate lobbying disclosure released last month, Time Warner Cable admitted it was also spending $22,000 of its subscribers' money on the same meal.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by randmcnatt on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:53PM

    by randmcnatt (671) on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:53PM (#80809)
    Allow them to merge but declare the new venture a common carrier. That would put some competition back into the mix.
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