Comcast’s proposed deal to sell Time Warner Cable...
Comcast’s proposed deal to sell Time Warner Cable customers to Charter Communications, if Comcast/TWC is approved, would strengthen Charter by enhancing and rationalizing its geographic footprint, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge and Executive Vice President-Government Affairs Catherine Bohigian told all five…
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FCC members and their aides in separate meetings July 24, said an ex parte notice (http://bit.ly/WLCmKB) posted in docket 14-28 Monday. The deal would also increase Charter’s scale, “ensuring that customers in the systems acquired by Charter will be served by a stronger competitor,” the filing said. Reclassifying broadband under Title II to approve net neutrality regulations would be “both unnecessary and harmful” and “would upend the current climate of regulatory predictability,” as well as harm private investment and ultimately consumers, Charter said.