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Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable In $44.2 Billion All-Stock Deal

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-can-expect-payment-between-noon-and-4pm dept.

symbolset writes "CNBC and many others report Time Warner Cable has agreed to be acquired by Comcast for $44.2 billion. From the article: 'The agreement comes more than eight months after Charter Communictions and Liberty Media made their first foray to try and negotiate a deal to acquire Time Warner Cable (a story broken by CNBC) and follows months of conversations between Time Warner Cable and Comcast about the prospect of a Comcast acquisition of the company. '"

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  1. Re:Antitrust lawsuit? by jonnythan · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't think there area any areas where both TW and Comcast operate. So it won't change the number of choices for anyone.

  2. Re:Antitrust lawsuit? by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Washington Post's article confirms that:

    "Comcast and Time Warner Cable don’t have overlapping markets, so antitrust regulators won’t view the merger with the same concerns they did with AT&T’s proposed bid with T-Mobile, experts say. That deal, which regulators rejected, would have eliminated a major national carrier and given consumers across the country fewer options."

    Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  3. Re:SEC block? by aerivus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Interactive HTML5 Coverage Maps:
    Comcast Coverage Map
    Time Warner Cable Coverage Map
    Buzzfeed has further analysis of the above maps