Charter is about get FCC approval on its plan to buy TWC and
Bright House Networks for $60B+. Likely
conditions attached to the deal are assurances to comply with net neutrality
rules, even if thrown out by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, expand high-speed
broadband into communities with no alternative to the low-speed offerings of the
incumbent telecom company, and limit/restrict Charter from including how
content owners can distribute their programming.
With little network overlap among cable firms, the DOJ’s antitrust
concerns will not be on the elimination of local TV market competition, but on the
combined firm’s heft in programming negotiations (same concern with the
Comcast-TWC deal, but on a smaller scale).
If the merger is approved, Charter will be the second
largest MVPD/ISP in the country.
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