Long live Bell Telephone.
Long live Bell Telephone.
Ma Bell was murdered in her sleep.
Ma Bell was murdered in her sleep.
Right, because we totally should be allowing even MORE consolidation in the industry. What fresh bullshit is this?
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From the post:
>Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communications Commission permission to buy Cox and surpass Comcast as the country’s largest home Internet service provider. Charter has 29.7 million residential and business Internet customers compared to Comcast’s 31.26 million. Buying Cox will give Charter another 5.9 million Internet customers. The FCC approved the deal on Friday, but the companies still need Justice Department approval and sign-offs from states including California and New York. Opponents of Charter’s $34.5 billion acquisition told the FCC that eliminating Cox as an independent entity will make it easier for Charter and Comcast to raise prices. But the FCC dismissed those concerns on the grounds that Charter and Cox don’t compete directly against each other in the vast majority of their territories.
Right, because we totally should be allowing even MORE consolidation in the industry.
What fresh bullshit is this?
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From the post:
>>Charter Communications, operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has obtained Federal Communications Commission permission to buy Cox and surpass Comcast as the country’s largest home Internet service provider.
Charter has 29.7 million residential and business Internet customers compared to Comcast’s 31.26 million. Buying Cox will give Charter another 5.9 million Internet customers. The FCC approved the deal on Friday, but the companies still need Justice Department approval and sign-offs from states including California and New York.
Opponents of Charter’s $34.5 billion acquisition told the FCC that eliminating Cox as an independent entity will make it easier for Charter and Comcast to raise prices. But the FCC dismissed those concerns on the grounds that Charter and Cox don’t compete directly against each other in the vast majority of their territories.
I’m so fucking sick of these mergers and buyouts. There’s no competition left, and the feds rubber stamp everything.
I’m so fucking sick of these mergers and buyouts. There’s no competition left, and the feds rubber stamp everything.
Government allowed monopolies so they only have to go to one company to say "hey, we told you to spy on everyone, give me data on this one person or, who knows... A few hundred thousand people".
It's annoying that op-sec needs to be a critical part of life now. Just so you can live a somewhat normal life. Not even with all of the advertising but also to tell the gov to fuck itself. On top of that you have to be "static" because if you are a "black hole" you become interesting.
Yeah. The future fucking sucks.
Government allowed monopolies so they only have to go to one company to say "hey, we told you to spy on everyone, give me data on this one person or, who knows... A few hundred thousand people".
It's annoying that op-sec needs to be a critical part of life now. Just so you can live a somewhat normal life. Not even with all of the advertising but also to tell the gov to fuck itself. On top of that you have to be "static" because if you are a "black hole" you become interesting.
Yeah. The future fucking sucks.
I can’t really think of another reason they’d have flipped so quickly on things like AT$T. SWBell is too big, break it up. AT$T can rebuild it all and buy more, though - totally fine.
I can’t really think of another reason they’d have flipped so quickly on things like AT$T. SWBell is too big, break it up. AT$T can rebuild it all and buy more, though - totally fine.