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US Regulators May Scuttle Time Warner Cable - Comcast Merger

posted by martyb on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-harm-competition-where-there-is-none dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Ever since Time Warner and Comcast announced their intent to seek a merger, public opinion has been fiercely against the idea. The discussions over whether the merger should be allowed have sparked increased discussion around the effective oligopoly and profound anticompetitive nature of American broadband. Now, news has broken that the US government’s regulators are considering killing the deal.

There’s been little serious argument that the merger should be allowed to proceed. While the two companies protested that allowing them to merge wouldn’t harm competition, the maps they produced to demonstrate this wound up illustrating just how anti-competitive the current system already is.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/203664-us-regulators-reportedly-gearing-up-to-kill-time-warner-comcast-merger?

[Related]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-17/u-s-antitrust-lawyers-said-to-be-leaning-against-comcast-merger

 
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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @07:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @07:06PM (#172901)

    While our experience with Time Warner Cable (upstate NY) isn't great, everything I've heard about Comcast is worse. Hoping that the merger is stopped--it's about time for the anti-trust regulation "pendulum" to swing back the other way.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 20 2015, @02:12AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday April 20 2015, @02:12AM (#172995)
    I'm not sure why you think you should have any say in the process.
    Did you donate $1.2 million dollars to various political causes? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000000094&cycle=2014
    I'll bet you didn't and it's just laziness on your part really. If you could just be bothered getting up and supporting your Senator or Congress person with just a couple of million, then you too could take part in the process.