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Time Warner approves Comcast Merger

Say, aren't Comcast and Charter starting a joint venture?

http://money.cnn.com/infographic/news/comcast-time-warner-coverage-map/

I see that Charter would then move into Milwaukee; Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, and Cleveland. (Lexington, KY is fighting the merger right now, facing its fourth cable provider in five years)

GreatLands (the Comcast/Charter joint venture) would then take Detroit, Memphis, Nashville, and Indianapolis.

I wonder what Cox (the third largest provider) has to say about this? (Cox serves Phoenix, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City.)
 
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The FCC might still block this. Unless 'GreatLand Connections' is better capitalized, having no more than three times debt to EBITDA, it shouldn't be approved. The FCC shouldn't let Comcast cast off these areas with inadequate capital.
 
If this merger goes through, I'm going back to Champion Broadband (just like from 2005-2008), which is the only other choice in my neighborhood because DirecTV doesn't get reception at my house.

Having 33 million pay-TV customers is a borderline monopoly.

A few major metro areas would have other choices:
Chicago: RCN
New York: Cablevision

NBC Universal programming is going to be mercilessly promoted 24/7, leaving customers with very limited choices for TV channels.
 
Besides the "rabbit ears", DirecTV, and Dish Network, my neighborhood doesn't have many other choices beyond Time Warner Cable...which if the merger goes through, would revert BACK to Comcast. My neighborhood is wired for AT&T landline service, but not for U-verse...however, just a couple miles across town, my father-in-law has U-verse TV at his house and seems to enjoy it.
 
I'm not sure all of those areas actually have choices. In Chicago, RCN and Time Warner serve difference sections of the city. There might be some overlap, but I don't believe most TWC customers can switch.
 
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I'm not sure all of those areas actually have choices. In Chicago, RCN and Time Warner serve difference sections of the city. There might be some overlap, but I don't believe most TWC customers can switch.
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RCN is an overbuilder cable system, so they can co-exist in the same territory as Comcast (in Chicago's case) or any other provider. In New York City, Time Warner serves three of the five boroughs (plus parts of Brooklyn), while Cablevision serves The Bronx and the other areas of Brooklyn.
 
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I'm wary of AT&T as well. Frontier is about to take over land line phone and DSL internet service here in Connecticut. AT&T will only remain for wireless. I have AT&T for both land line phone and DSL internet services. :(
 
Here in the lansing / Jackson cable market we will be among those switched to the hybrid "GreatLands" , and again confusion reins
 
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