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Comcast ends New York merger review
Last week, Comcast publicly and definitively ended its bid to swallow up Time Warner Cable. Part of the merger process involved regulatory reviews in the states, mostly around the transfer of Time Warner’s franchise agreements to Comcast. In New York, the company had petitioned the state Public Service Commission to clear the way for the […]
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State’s Comcast-Time Warner merger review trudges on
The state’s decision on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger will not be made by the end of the year as previously projected. Comcast and Time Warner have again agreed to grant state Department of Public Service staff additional time to review the proposed transaction, where Comcast would swallow-up Time Warner to create one cable mega-corporation […]
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State’s Comcast-Time Warner review extended
The state Public Service Commission has postponed its decision on the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. The decision had been expected today. In a filing yesterday, Comcast and Time Warner Cable agreed to a request from commission staff to delay the decision, as long as the matter concludes by the end of 2014. The commission […]
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[UPDATED] New York’s Comcast-Time Warner decision could come in November
New York regulators will probably make their decision on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger by the end of fall. When the State Department of Public Service announced its review of the merger in late May, it said that the process would take about four months. But department staff requested an extension, according to a filing […]
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Comcast-Time Warner deal in regulators’ hands
If approved, the merger would make Comcast, already the largest pay TV and broadband Internet provider in the country, even bigger.
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The speed wars
When Time Warner Cable announced recently that it’s raising cable Internet rates, customer complaints were inevitable. And once the grumbling started, it became clear that many customers believe that they are going to pay more a month for less-than-stellar Internet connections. “Other people around the world do not pay close to what we pay for […]
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Changing channels
Time Warner Cable is not taking away PBS. Earlier this month, the cable company informed its Western New York subscribers via a letter that it’s changing how it carries public, educational, and government access television stations. These aren’t public stations in the PBS sense, even though some subscribers clearly believe they are. They’re better known […]
