Article: Comcast to buy Time Warner for $159 per share

[Rart]

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I just want to reiterate: this is really, really, bad for the consumer.

This is akin to AT&T buying Verizon. Which hopefully gives hope to the DOJ/FCC shutting it down as the AT&T/T Mobile merger was stopped.

We don't need these monopolies to get even more massive.

I just want to reiterate: this is really, really, bad for the consumer.

This is akin to AT&T buying Verizon. Which hopefully gives hope to the DOJ/FCC shutting it down as the AT&T/T Mobile merger was stopped.

We don't need these monopolies to get even more massive.

I just want to reiterate: this is really, really, bad for the consumer.

This is akin to AT&T buying Verizon. Which hopefully gives hope to the DOJ/FCC shutting it down as the AT&T/T Mobile merger was stopped.

We don't need these monopolies to get even more massive.

[megabyteme]

Well, it's not like broadband is a common carrier utility. Why not?

BTW...

[bobbintb]

Uh oh...
This is not good.

[Rart]

The one thing we can take solace in is that this is almost analagous to AT&T buying out Verizon... and AT&T buying T Mobile was shut down, so there's hope.

On the other side, it could be argued that TWC and Comcast don't overlap/directlyy compete in their services (yay local monopolies) and thus the merger is perfectly valid.

Also: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4780173.html

Comcast CEO calls this "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer".

[trogdor]

Now even more people can enjoy bad customer service.

[bobbintb]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...ustry/ym52vbd4

[gamelink]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...ustry/ym52vbd4

Thanks, petitioned

[rlewis1767]

The two cable companies rated as having the worst customer service are merging to form the largest cable company ever. They claim because their markets don't overlap that it doesn't fall under antitrust regulations, even though the only reason they don't overlap is because they already had local monopolies on cable service. Don't hold your breath waiting for the SEC to kill this deal. Antitrust has not been high on their priority list for 20 years. The only way for this deal to fail is for people to start screaming at their representatives. Not likely.

[megabyteme]

Great first point, rlewis. "Pro-competitive" and "Pro-consumer" would require these two to compete against each other in the same areas. Case closed.