New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Charter Communications could lose its authorization to operate in New York State because of its failure to meet merger-related broadband deployment commitments, a key government official said. NY Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman John Rhodes said that "a suite of enforcement actions against [Charter] Spectrum are in development, including additional penalties, injunctive relief, and additional sanctions or revocation of Spectrum's ability to operate in New York State," according to a PSC announcement last week. Charter agreed to expand its network in exchange for state approval of its 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC). New York officials say that Charter has failed to meet its commitments, even though Charter claims it has. Rhodes accused Charter of "gaslighting" and noted that the PSC has already ordered Charter to stop making misleading claims about its broadband deployment progress. The PSC last month ordered Charter to pay a $2 million fine and complete the promised network construction. If Charter doesn't meet its merger-related obligations, the company will "face the risk of having the merger revoked," the commission said at the time. A revocation of the merger could force Charter to spin off its Time Warner Cable division in New York, but it wouldn't affect Charter's ownership of TWC in other states.

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Re:About f**king time.

[jwhyche]

The Governor of NY, Andrew Cuomo, is probably trying for a 2020 bid against Trump,

Cuomo would be a fool to do so. Unless Trump chooses not to run or something happens in the next 2 years he has pretty much has 2020 in the bag. Despite what the talking heads on TV keep saying Trump is actually doing a good job as president. This, and the fact that his support among Republicans is at 80%. The highest of any president since Ronald Reagan.

This, and with the expected massive losses expected for the Democratic party in the mid-terms, it would be best that the Democratic party concede 2020 as well as 2018. Instead the Democratic should concentrate on damage control and hope for a 2024 victory. Right now to the average voter the Democratic party looks like lunatic asylum run by the Three Stooges.

They could start by distancing themselves from the more radical congressional members and those running like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They should also put a muzzle on Maxine Waters who is seen as a loon by most American voters anyway. The Democratic party should actively attempt to remove Waters from their membership by supporting her opponent in the upcoming midterms.

The Democratic party is losing many long term members who see the current party as being anti American and seeking to regain power through any means possible. They just don't see the Democratic party being their party any more so they are choosing to go Republican this year and in 2020. Nancy Pelosi see this and has distanced herself and tried to reign in more radical elements.