Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable - 44.2 billion in stock

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BoboBrazil said:
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
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Naw, that's about right. I was paying almost that much for 50/10 but I negotiated a (much) better price for 25/5 and also bought my own modem.
 
Don't worry, Google will wire up everyone eventually. They have captured nearly all of the 1st world's road systems. Wiring fiber in the United States should be easy.
 
Diablos said:
Naw, that's about right. I was paying almost that much for 50/10 but I negotiated a (much) better price for 25/5 and also bought my own modem.
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Actually just pulling up Comcast now I can get 50mbps service for $49.99 a month+tax That's gonna save me atleast $30 a month. I'm trying to get a place with Fios in the next couple of months anyway, but damn it's hard to get an apartment with it here.
 
I've used both over the years and I recall finding comcast to be a fucking nightmare of a company filled with incompetent greedy assholes who did everything they could to squeeze every cent out of me while providing some of the most awful customer support I've ever had to deal with and very inconsistent service. TWC, while not perfect, was in another league in comparison, having no bullshit fees and no hassle when it came time to shut off my account.
So it seems like a real shame if this actually goes though. Less comcast the better.
 
Comcast is hoping to make more money by jacking prices up, making caps stricter and eliminating alternatives to their shitty service. This is classic antitrust bullshit.
 
The problem is that even though they weren't in the same market, with this kinda large-subscriber based clout (not to mention they own of the main networks now, NBC) they have the ability to dictate terms to cable channels, data caps, internet video services, etc. This is a potential really bad thing.
 
God fucking damnit. Google Fiber needs to speed up the rollout here in KC. Still don't have it in our area yet even though we have long passed the presignup limit and its confirmed for our area, and I want to switch over before Comcast starts their shit with the TWC customers here.
 
I'm guessing any Google internet is basically: they associate all your internet activity to your Google+ account info (including non-user-viewable info)?
 
Comcast will say they have plenty of competition in the form of the few local companies nationwide + the other major carriers for internet plus dish and directv for television and the idiot politicians will only see lobbyists dumping money on them and them being mostly old technology unsavvy people, they have no idea that you can't get every service in every neighborhood.
 
BoboBrazil said:
Comcast will say they have plenty of competition in the form of the few local companies nationwide + the other major carriers for internet plus dish and directv for television and the idiot politicians will only see lobbyists dumping money on them and them being mostly old technology unsavvy people, they have no idea that you can't get every service in every neighborhood.
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And that's how they will try to play this off as. Regional crap. For example, Comcast can negoiate with a city/county to basically be the only carrier in that area but if anyone complains they point to other regional areas to say they are not a monopoly. What needs to happen is similar to what has happened in some states. Deregulation. Let comcast just own the lines, but have to allow others to provide internet/cable services. Problem is with internet and cable, its a reliability concern when your playing with very small companies.
 
Hard to compete without major investments from federal/state governments. So why bother? Ugh. A merging of two large ISP's is not good at all but they're already so similar it barely even matters.
 
Ether_Snake said:
I'm guessing any Google internet is basically: they associate all your internet activity to your Google+ account info (including non-user-viewable info)?
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It's so good that the other ISPs provide service ten times better just to not lose all their business.

Then they go bribe state legislators to block it in as many places as possible.

We need pitchforks and torches. This is something that we need to hound Congressfolk on.
Someone cue the Warren-signal.
 
Wow, the United States is about to get a shittier monopoly on their cable offerings than the already shitty Rogers-Bell oligopoly that has stunted TV, Internet and wireless services in Canada for years.

Hope you guys raise hell over this. Otherwise your entire country is going to be cutting their tether to cable soon enough.
 
Makes me thrilled that I just switched over to ATT Uverse a couple months ago after suffering under Time Warner Cable for the last decade or so. For all their bullshit, at least Time Warner never capped me. Scumbag Comcast should die in a fire.

Help us, Google! You're our only hope!
 
Funny thing I'd love to have comcast. I have GCI it makes comcast look good... which is horrible.

160 bucks for 22Mbs dl, 2Mbs ul, 300gig cap.
 
We only have Time Warner in central NY and they are already an absolute travesty. When I lived with my parents in their upper class neighborhood, I was averaging 88kbps.

That's not even a 1/10 of a megabyte.
 
Man this country is going even further down the toilet for internet. If I get stuck with data caps, I am seriously moving to an area with Google Fiber. It's only about 10 miles away currently, so close yet so far :(
 
Fenderputty said:
Clearly all you fools should just choose the other opt ... Ohhh.
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Like Hell I'm going back to ATT.

Data caps aren't my problem but performance is. I barely use the net but if this is the move that drives me back in the world or reality more often so be it.
 
Yeah, just got an update pushed to my phone about this. Came straight here to complain with the rest of you. How in the hell is this even legal? LOL.
 
Jeels said:
So what, did AT&T not deposit enough?
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You could actually choose between AT&T and T-Mobile (most places). That's not the case with TWC and Comcast (most places). I can choose among several options for my cellular service, T-Mobile and AT&T merging would have eliminated one. I can choose among several options for my television and internet service, TWC and Comcast merging eliminates none, it simply replaces one with the other. I'm sure in markets (if any) where they actually compete, Comcast might already plan to cede control of the acquired subscribers to a different company to preserve the competitive status quo.

That's not to say the merger will be allowed, but the arguments would be different. I might even say they could argue this would be better for consumers, as a larger company has more clout to fight against increased subscriber fees from the media conglomerates, and would result in lower cable rates over time than the alternative. (This is what they would argue, not what I believe.)

tl;dr: This is nothing like the blocked AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
 
Diablos said:
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?
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Nobody came to my house.
 
Do any of you have any smaller ISP alternatives where you live? I know here in Columbus we have Wide Open West, which was a fantastic service when I had them at my old house. Time Warner and AT&T have a lock on the neighborhood I'm in now so I've had Time Warner for awhile and can't really complain other than the price, but I'm moving soon and was excited to see WoW was available at our new home. 60 bucks a month for 50Mb/3Mb is their monthly fee Vs 15Mb/1Mb with Time Warner for the same price

Anyone else have options?
 
Allforce said:
Do any of you have any smaller ISP alternatives where you live? I know here in Columbus we have Wide Open West, which was a fantastic service when I had them at my old house. Time Warner and AT&T have a lock on the neighborhood I'm in now so I've had Time Warner for awhile and can't really complain other than the price, but I'm moving soon and was excited to see WoW was available at our new home. 60 bucks a month for 50Mb/3Mb is their monthly fee Vs 15Mb/1Mb with Time Warner for the same price

Anyone else have options?
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No options other than Comcast that I know of. It sucks.
 
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