Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable - 44.2 billion in stock
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Spectromixer
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So what happens to current TWC subscribers? D:
Haint
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Yes, most of the south east is presently under a 250GB or 300GB hard cap "trial" with overage fees, but it's clearly being poised for full scale roll out.
Well. Everyone knows it's comcast so that doesn't work, they needed a service branding that is different from Comcast since it became a giant behemoth when they bought NBC.
Told you!
250gb, but on my acct, i've had a sign under it forever that says "data caps are not currently enforced" or something
Randolph Freelander
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Charter was only offering $132.50 per share. Comcast swooped in with a $159 offer. Huge upgrade.
Turbowaffles
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Google, please come to Maryland and save me.
Hell, I'll take Verizon FiOS too. But neither of you jerks will come to my neck of the woods.
Hell, I'll take Verizon FiOS too. But neither of you jerks will come to my neck of the woods.
Comcast now has a 300GB/month cap. You can go over 3 times before they start charging you. It is $10 for ever 50GB over 300.
Yup. I'm in Atlanta and just checked and we were charged an extra $10 for going over our cap last month. Awesome.
So I'm going to be going from the 6th best ISP for Netflix streaming to the 14th. Fuck.
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
Fuck, that is not good new for internet access in America. Fuckers doing this during the Olympics while people are distracted. I got Charter so I'm good for now, but I am quivering in my boots if I ever get Data Caps. I guess worst case is getting the business internet plan, that cost a shitton more -_-
So sad considering their huge margins, coaxial has the band with to spare. Stop pretending your TV shit that's more and more irrelevant doesn't use the same fucking data. Ugh. Frustrated.
So sad considering their huge margins, coaxial has the band with to spare. Stop pretending your TV shit that's more and more irrelevant doesn't use the same fucking data. Ugh. Frustrated.
Haint
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That's the old soft cap that has existed as legal grounds to terminate service of obscenely heavy abusers (think multiple TB's). Hard caps are enforced across the board (a la mobile data) with 250-300GBish bucket and I think $10/per 50GB overage fees. Hard cap is what they're currently "trialing" in the south east, but their intentions are transparent enough.
Why wouldn't you have switched already?
Which helps not at all since Comcast is throttling Netflix.
http://arstechnica.com/information-...zon-and-comcast-has-been-dropping-for-months/
You are doing it wrong....
"Hey FTC, you dropped some money. We deposited into your banking accounts so you wouldn't lose it again."
ramuh
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Doesn't this still have to go by regulatory agencies? Not to mention lawsuits for being anti-competitive. Don't they have to prove with evidence this doesn't stifle competition? Kinda like how that big airline merger had to give up spaces at airports to get approval. Then again, Comcast is a top contributor to the current administration campaigns. Obama golfed with the Comcast CEO late last year.
Comcast is better than TWC; it would have been worse the other way around.
That said, this is awful for competition and makes the US ISP situation all the more limited which is both sad and pathetic given how populated this country is. There are too little ISP's as is. Getting rid of another one is not the way to go.
Google has an office here in Pittsburgh, so I really hope that will serve as a catalyst for Google Fiber. HURRY UP GUYS.
That said, this is awful for competition and makes the US ISP situation all the more limited which is both sad and pathetic given how populated this country is. There are too little ISP's as is. Getting rid of another one is not the way to go.
Google has an office here in Pittsburgh, so I really hope that will serve as a catalyst for Google Fiber. HURRY UP GUYS.
I know around 2006 or so Comcast traded DFW to to Time Warner, because I got my comcast hooked up and had to deal with it like one month later changing into Time Warner.
But this sounds awful. More cities should be looking to build municipal fiber networks to counteract this shot, or Google needs to step in and save us.
The Power Of Snap
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My parents have comcast in Florida and the fucking guide looks like a goddamn 8-bit Nintendo game. Ridiculous in 2014.
Lol that good old pace.
I have that terminal and i'm in canada...
Avon Barksdale
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Thank god I have Verizon FiOS.
Wow at that throttling of Netflix. I cannot wait for Google to destroy all of these companies and put the aristocracy of dumb fucks that lead them on the street (albeit with a golden parachute, but without the irrational psychopathic high of fucking over people, their lives will be empty).
My parents have comcast in Florida and the fucking guide looks like a goddamn 8-bit Nintendo game. Ridiculous in 2014.
haha that's exactly how Rogers guide looks like in Canada
so bad...
You mean the service whose agents pre-2012 election would come into your house for a service call and tell you that if Romney wins their CEO wanted to work with him to force people onto Verizon Wireless by phasing out Fios/stopping it from being introduced to new cities?
BoboBrazil
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This doesn't change anything. They were never competitors. They all had monopolies over geographical regions. Even still today I'm stuck with the only option of Time Warner even though I'd rather have pretty much any other company at this point. Kind of funny that my area went from @home to Comcast, then Comcast sold them to Time Warner, now Comcast will end up taking the area over again or I'll be one of the 3 million divested lol. It sucks because most places to live by me don't have the option for Fios. Time Warner bought long term contracts with most apartment complexes to only use them here.
It is kind of true. Comcast is better, Lesser of two evils of course.
I am more worried about price, as in your monthly bill.
I just want them to burn. They remind me of when AT&T lobbied against the freeing up of RF bands, which were used to create the whole cell phone market.
polyh3dron
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My 20 megabit with no bandwidth cap connection says fuck no it's not.
also, http://arstechnica.com/information-...zon-and-comcast-has-been-dropping-for-months/
Oh there are plenty of reasons to complain, just not anticompetitive
.Municipal fiber should be more of a thing
BoboBrazil
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They are already fucking me on my bill anyway. I doubt it gets worse than me paying $86 a month for 50/5 internet only
This is dangerous as fuck. Comcast are a bunch of scam-artists. They've flat out lied to me about prices of services and just last week i got a letter in the mail saying that to continue getting part of my service i'd have to pay an extra 10 bucks cause they overlooked me somehow.
Just watch, Comcast is gonna be all over data caps and anti-piracy measures as soon as they buy everyone. All their money is lining the pockets of corrupt politicians.
Just watch, Comcast is gonna be all over data caps and anti-piracy measures as soon as they buy everyone. All their money is lining the pockets of corrupt politicians.
dorkimoe
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I have comcast and have for 10 years. Looks nothing like that and never has in my area. That's not to say their Netflix streaming and customer service still ain't horse shitMy parents have comcast in Florida and the fucking guide looks like a goddamn 8-bit Nintendo game. Ridiculous in 2014.
A Human Becoming
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Government needs to stop this shit. Trust busting!
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