[ NNSquad ] Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Will Reshape US Broadband (Sam Gustin)

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Comcast-Time Warner Cable Deal Will Reshape US Broadband (Sam Gustin)

(Vice Motherboard): http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-fccs-comcast-time-warner-cable-decision-will-reshape-broadband-in-america

    "We're at a critical crossroads," Michael Copps, who served as a FCC
    commissioner from 2001 to 2009 and is now a special advisor to
    DC-based public interest group Common Cause, told me in a recent
    interview. "We have dumbed down our civic dialogue dramatically
    because of the effects of media consolidation on news and
    information."  The FCC's role in evaluating the merger is crucial,
    because the agency has a statutory responsibility to ensure that the
    merger advances the public interest, even as it addresses other issues
    such as net neutrality and municipal broadband.

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We assume coincidentally, Time Warner Cable suffered a massive nationwide 
outage of Internet services this morning, affecting more than 10 million
subscribers. After a merger, they could presumably kill the Internet services
of far more subscribers just as quickly! Perhaps Comcast will put that
in their arguments to the FCC. No, probably not.

--Lauren--
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