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"Comcast is expected to insist its market does not overlap with Time Warner Cable and that the deal would not reduce competition for consumers."

1 posted on 02/13/2014 6:36:47 AM PST by shove_it
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To: shove_it

Time Warner customers, prepare yourselves for a truly hideous experience.

I’d keep the toll-free numbers of the dish companies handy.


2 posted on 02/13/2014 6:41:16 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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How is this not a monopoly?

So now instead of two companies with horrid customer support and unfair pricing, now folks have one to choose from. /sarcasm


3 posted on 02/13/2014 6:42:37 AM PST by Marko413
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WoW - a bigger company to give us 500 channels we don’t want to watch...


4 posted on 02/13/2014 6:43:44 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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Team Obama WILL APPROVE THIS BIG BUSINESS MERGER, as it CRUSHES competition AND because Comcast is in the pocket of the regime.


6 posted on 02/13/2014 6:49:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Thinking it maybe is time to buy a converter box.


9 posted on 02/13/2014 7:03:51 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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Will they finally offer The Blaze?


15 posted on 02/13/2014 7:19:47 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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This looks like Anti-Trust division should not allow this merger. But Comcast is very friendly with the Obungu Administration so most likely nothing will happen


19 posted on 02/13/2014 7:38:17 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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Didn’t see that coming. (Not.)


21 posted on 02/13/2014 7:40:28 AM PST by bolobaby
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“Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable For $45bn”

That’s interesting. The total outlays of the federal government in 1951... 45 billion [$45,514,000,000]


24 posted on 02/13/2014 7:59:47 AM PST by deks
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This news makes me even more glad that we switched from Time Warner to AT&T U-Verse several years ago.
29 posted on 02/13/2014 8:46:16 AM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, peace," but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!)
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The FTC failed us on the oil mergers in the 90s and is failing us on this bigtime if they let it go.

If there’s one thing the government should be involved in it’s anti-trust.


32 posted on 02/13/2014 8:54:33 AM PST by Monty22002
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Can’t imagine the feds approving this except that both sides have commie friends of Obama who could grease the skids with sizable campaign donations.


34 posted on 02/13/2014 9:06:59 AM PST by OrangeHoof (2001-2008: "Dissent Is Patriotism!" 2009-2016: "Dissent Is Racism!")
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We still have anti-trust laws, don’t we?


35 posted on 02/13/2014 9:11:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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I think I read the same thing in a Standard oil release many years ago.


37 posted on 02/13/2014 9:13:12 AM PST by Vaduz
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Before long, there will be ONE BIG: electric company, water company, gas company, healthcare company, grocery company, phone company, cell phone company, school control company, yada yada yada. The big boys are all coming together. Run off all competition. Make it just one big boy and no one else. Then, you control the PRICE. Thus, either come to me for what you want in TV or don’t get TV. Your choice. Do with. OR do without. See you DO have a choice. Do with. Or do without. Two choices. See, socialism does work. It does give you choices. Two of them in fact. Ain’t socialism and One World Government grand?!?!?!?!


38 posted on 02/13/2014 9:15:40 AM PST by RetiredArmy (God's judgment on America is here for us to see. If America does not wake up, it is going to suffer)
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