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Comcast to acquire Time Warner (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=281453)

This is just like the ATT/Tmobile deal that was supposed to happen a couple years back. Doubt it will go through.

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Originally Posted by Miles (Post 10430919)

I was meaning Comcast could get some of the shittier features from Time Warner. I live in Dallas and while Time Warner is getting a little better, a decent bit of OD (notably all premiums except Showtime) and NBA League Pass being in SD is pretty inexplicable in a major market.

Oh, shit. I read "SD" as "HD". My bad, dude.

As the sayin' goes:

If you THOUGHT Time Warner was bad...

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 10430854)

Check this out

Phones loading like shit. Can't see it.

This is shitty. Comcast finally seemed to drop their rates in my area, I presume because of anticipated competition with Google Fiber. I know theu Time Warner and Comcast agree to not compete with each other in this area but less competition is worse for the consumer typically

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Originally Posted by Pants (Post 10430914)

Where do you live?

Here in KC, Comcast's xfinity thing has the most extensive OD library I have ever seen.

KC is also benefiting from Skynet doing their thing... one can get some really good deals from the scared-shitless cable and internet providers.

Exactly, all because of competition with Google Fiber coming into the area. Surewest, and some other options.

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins (Post 10430847)

We have antitrust laws, but ATT was able to flout them for the better part of 75 years, and given the current regulatory environment, there's little to suggest that things won't become even more consolidated than in the past.

If you didn't own a Bell telephone you used to have to pay a monthly lease fee and a rewiring charge to get it to work with the system. And given that most telecoms are largely natural monopolies due to wiring, if they become actual monopolies due to competition you can kiss the days of fast, uncapped internet and non-preferential site loading goodbye.

Example: I'm Comcast and I own NBC. A subscriber wants to stream a show on ABC's website. For some odd ****ing reason, that show loads at a fraction of the speed of the peacock's website. Wonder why.

This and other monopoly abuses are discussed in this Fresh Air piece. In addition to reclassifying cable providers as common carriers, I like her suggestion of following the Stockholm model (using bonds to fund a fiber network and then charging multiple competing providers for access).

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcons...ing-way-behind

If you've never had Comcast, count yourself lucky. Truly a loathsome company.

The need for competition in today's market is very real.

If this merger goes through there will be five companies that own almost all of the media market in the US, not just cable, but local tv, radio, internet. Started when Reagan did away with the fairness doctrine. The public is not better served by the change.

Everytime there is a thunderstorm warning within 100 miles of where you live, it will freeze your TV with an archaic EBS warning the switch to CSPANN and get stuck there for a bit. It is ****ing annoying. They interrupt your local news telling you in real time where the storm is, has gone and is going for a generic text message with a robotic voice that takes up the whole screen.

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Originally Posted by whoman69 (Post 10431049)

Reagan began media deregulation, but Clinton finished it. Don't blame just one house. They both recieve stellar campaign contributions.

And yes, here is the problem with unregulated markets....Invisibile hand doing a GREAT job.

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Originally Posted by -King- (Post 10430921)

This is just like the ATT/Tmobile deal that was supposed to happen a couple years back. Doubt it will go through.

First thing that came to my mind, as a T-Mobile customer... and AT&T was supremely confident it would go through.

I've never had Comcast, but I had TW for a whopping 3 days after our move to an apartment a few years back that wouldn't allow LOS for our DTV dish.

TW sucked ass. Switched to U-Verse the same week.