Charter Communications to acquire Cox Communications

[kphoger]

Well, this should end up being interesting for me, considering I work for a company that does contract work for both Charter and Cox.

[JREwing78]

I have clients in the former Time Warner service area under Charter; their techs continue to get tripped up because they think they're going into a Charter service area and bring the wrong equipment with them. What should've been a 1 hour install took all day. I suspect similar issues will happen with those formerly with Cox.

[LilianaUwU]

Clearly the current government isn't interested in enforcing the antitrust laws.

[Scott5114]

Clearly the current government isn't interested in enforcing the antitrust laws.

Most of the markets that these two were in only had one or the other; they weren't competing. So the only cable Internet I can get in Las Vegas will be called Spectrum instead of Cox. Ho hum.

[SEWIGuy]

Right. Most cable companies aren't competing with one another AND are competing with other entertainment and ISP providers. So there really aren't antitrust issues involved.