Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable

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Vaclav_sl said:
Quoting her again - "$27/ft is including installation costs - there's tons of ways to defray that - the actual cable itself is a small fraction of that cost" [Quoted her verbatim this time - besides the dashes I added - I love dashes - - - - ]
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I would suggest that you ask her to make an account here and enlighten us herself, but if you're anything like me there is no damn way you would let anyone you know in real life see what you post here.
 
mkopec

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If its one thing they should nationalize and regulate is the infrastructure surrounding cable and internet. Then let the shitty ISPs pay to use it. Then we will finally have a choice and competition among them.
 
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At least TWC uses $1.01 worth of lube. Comcast will go in dry.
 
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This entire thread makes me happy that Cox is the local cable monopoly in my neck of the woods.
 
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It must differ nationwide because Comcast is amazing in the Houston area. No data caps, and it's super cheap.

My tier is 50 down, but I'm always at around 75 down
 
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Comcast, Time Warner agree to merge in $45 billion deal - The Washington Post

Comcast does not overlap with Time Warner Cable in any cities, which means it would not eliminate competition, the firms said.
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The combined company would have 33 million cable subscribers and nearly as many broadband users, giving it enormous power in negotiations with networks over licensing fees and in determining what shows reach consumers on mobile devices, laptops and television sets. It could influence whether the next Apple TV or Google device gets a fair shot at replacing cable set-top boxes. Without the second-biggest cable company to help keep pressure on prices for triple-play television, Internet and phone service, Comcast would have flexibility to set the market rates.
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Without even going into whether it's a monopoly or bad for consumers, I just want to say: Time Warner sucks. Comcast sucks more.
 
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TV in general is pretty fucked up. Few providers and even channel owners are few in number pushing bundles of channels. Not much competition on either end to push prices down now that there is near zero growth in the market.

I'm mostly happy with my Comcast internet speed /price.
 
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Depends if they're "real Comcast" or a subsidiary that Comcast bought sometimes - the areas near me that used to be Adelphia before Comcast took it over is still pretty solid - but they've got the advantages of how Adelphia had it set up plus lower numbers of subscribers (since Cable lines "share bandwidth" with the neighborhood to a degree) here in Baltimore County where it's always been Comcast you're lucky to get half of what they advertise OFF PEAK and during peak times maybe a quarter to a third. (Besides the first 30 sec or so due to that "Burst" stuff they do that is - that's usually awesome but the first 30 sec or whatever is trivial for most applications you need bandwidth for)

Now fiber based solutions as far as I'm aware don't have any type of "sharing issues" at least that's part of the spiel I got a few years ago. (Although on that note - it's another question to toss at her on Facebook for my own curiosity for when I'm looking at the provider for the new place - although being consumer side and not backend not sure if it's in her purview)
 
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Comcast does not overlap with Time Warner Cable in any cities, which means it would not eliminate competition, the firms said.
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That's because cable companies usually have monopolies in any given city. The fact cable companies are effectively treated as utilities, but not really regulated like utilities, is a complete WTF.
 
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I have Charter, 25Mb down and usually get all of that. No data caps that I'm aware of, I've done 400-500GB/month 5 months in a row with no problem. I'll usually have a quiet month in there too but I use it pretty heavily.

I'd gladly take a reduction in throughput over data caps, most of my stuff I don't care (within reason) how fast it comes down, just that I can get it. If it went from 25Mb to 10Mb I probably wouldn't care too much.
 
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Cybsled_sl said:
That's because cable companies usually have monopolies in any given city. The fact cable companies are effectively treated as utilities, but not really regulated like utilities, is a complete WTF.
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ILEC and CLEC (and even ETCs) are actually quite regulated by the FCC

Edit: although the case could be made that they can just indirectly buy off the FCC
 
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While all big cable companies like this suck, Comcast in miami has been alot better the past few years than it was prior. Comcast is faster and cheaper than Uverse down here and my service hasnt had an interruption in over 5 months - not even going down for 10 seconds.
 
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Probably because it's Miami and they have had to rebuild the network more than a few times because of weather I'd imagine. Can't imagine the overall infrastructure doesn't get torn up every couple hurricanes with the winds and such at least. Not like most of the nation where they installed 90% of the network in the 80s and are still milking that same cow without adjusting the lines since.
 
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Crone_sl said:
I live in Phoenix AZ and have 2 options. DSL or Cable, and F DSL and F the company offering it. Both are terrible.
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Whats wrong with centurylink? Aside from being slightly pricier than Cox, Ive never had a problem with them in the past 3 years.
 
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Cad_sl said:
I have Charter, 25Mb down and usually get all of that. No data caps that I'm aware of, I've done 400-500GB/month 5 months in a row with no problem. I'll usually have a quiet month in there too but I use it pretty heavily.

I'd gladly take a reduction in throughput over data caps, most of my stuff I don't care (within reason) how fast it comes down, just that I can get it. If it went from 25Mb to 10Mb I probably wouldn't care too much.
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Yeah, I used to have Charter a year ago. They used to be terrible, but after they filed Chapter 11, they were the best cable company I've ever dealt with. Reliable speeds, outages almost nonexistent, a decent price, and solid customer service. Problem is, I moved out of state and now I'm saddled with Comcast(FIOS is available, but I live literally 2 miles outside of their coverage range). I pay roughly 30$/month more for the exact same speed that I had with Charter. Once the data caps come(they will, especially if this merger goes through), I'm going to 1MBit DSL, simply due to lack of options and voting with my dollars. It'll pretty much kill my ability to stream sports in HD(the only "live" programming I watch), but I'll still be able to manage.
 
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