Just a quick note to alert readers that we haven’t lost interest in keeping you informed about what is going on in the broadband industry. We are taking some time out to do more than just write about what we’re seeing around the country. We’re actually getting involved to try to change things.
The Comcast Time Warner Cable merger proposal is before New York regulators and this week is the deadline for the first round of comments on the proposal. More than 2,700 New York residents have added their two cents, most strongly opposed to the merger. We’re also seeing out-of-state Comcast-backed non-profit groups sending in comments praising Comcast (chapters of the Boys and Girls Club are by far the biggest offenders — something to remember when they ask you for money).
It is also highly unethical for public officials to lobby out-of-state regulators for a private, for-profit business deal, yet that is exactly what North Beach, Md. Mayor Mark Frazer did. So did Barbara A. Miller on the Board of Selectmen for the town of Peterborough, N.H. And you thought they represented you and your interests and not those of a giant multi-billion dollar cable company. Your vote can make all the difference, especially with Mayor Frazer who is up for re-election.
We will publish our full submission on Stop the Cap! when finished and appreciate your patience as we spend time documenting our arguments in opposition to this merger deal.
Anti-merger video.
I’m very extremely disappointed that Time Warner Cable decided to allow Comcast to take over all the communities in Nebraska and Kansas/Missouri from the Time Warner Cable Nebraska division under the Time Warner Cable Midwest group. The Comcast-Time Warner cable merger would cause Comcast to be big on being the 1970’s Disco era Neil Bogart Casablanca Records on being way too big on excess paving the way for Comcast to act like the Southern Methodist University football program of the 1980’s to force all of Comcast competitors as MSOs to force them all into a take it or leave it… Read more »