It's interesting to me that Comcast and Time Warner are now working on a merger. I was a Time Warner customer for many years in Upstate NY, and my every contact with them ended with frustration at some level. Now they want to merge with Comcast, which I've suffered with for two years now (but to give the devil its due, Comcast has been marginally better than Time Warner). Here's a quote from Comcast vice-president David Cohen: “This transaction is all about increasing competition and creating more consumer benefit as a result of gaining additional scale”. Ha! How in the world could this guy ever think he could convince me that a merger of two cable "giants" could possibly increase competition? If anything, Economics 101 says that statement is simply untrue. Now the political process of merger approval starts. If they've lined the right pockets, it will go through.
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