 morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000 | a prayer... "It also remains possible that this all ends with Charter being chopped up into bite-sized pieces and gobbled up by healthier cable outfits like Comcast and Time Warner Cable."
it's time that Charter goes away permanently. i only hope that they do get chopped up. |
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 HpowerRoflmao
join:2000-06-08
Glendale, CA | Yea no shet. I hope they go away for good. I remember when I lived in the Glendale area, their service was absolutely horrible. Just really horrible customer service on top of service that barely is working and they tell you to restart your modem like 5000 times.
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 DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | reply to morbo
Time Warner Healthier? |
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HpowerRoflmao
join:2000-06-08
Glendale, CA | Oh yea time warner is waaaaaaaaaay better than when I had charter. The only 1 issue I had with timewarner roadrunner cable was that my cable modem went kaput. They replaced it the next day and I was back to my full speed of 10/1mbps. No complaints at all.
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zed260Premium
join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN
kudos:1 | i doubt time warner would be able to afford charter i expect cox and comcast to be main buyers timewarner may buy a few key areas |
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DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | reply to Hpower
however with their bad PR lately I think they're on a downward slope |
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HpowerRoflmao
join:2000-06-08
Glendale, CA | Who would want to buy them anyway? What's the benefit of buying a bankrupt cable company? I can think of territory wise, expanding your network, but you'd be sunking in huge amounts of debt.
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zed260Premium
join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN
kudos:1 | bankrupt cable companys are acutly pretty good deals you can get huge chunks of teratory at vary low prices
more terratory also means better rates on programing costs and many other stuff |
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I use to work for Charter many years ago on the HSI side of things. I knew then that something like this was only a matter of time. Charter's network is horrible (at least it was on the west coast), the employees are treated like crap and I was very glad to be moving on. One of the worst companies I ever worked for and I am glad to see this. |
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I wouldn't really mind if they 'go away', but i don't see being gobbled up as good for consumers. I know cable companies typically have a regional monopoly (ignoring satelite, fios tv, uverse tv), but i just don't like the idea of having big 3 (or whatever it is). I suppose i don't have much to worry about if telco based cable tv services take off and i'm in an area where that is an option. |
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I would hate to see them go Charter has provided good service in my area |
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 jeffro
join:2007-04-20
Bay City, MI | reply to cornelius785
Comcast here I come! Good. Comcast is already in my city. How can I make this "gobble up" procedure move along faster? |
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zed260Premium
join:2007-09-30
Cleveland, TN
kudos:1 | cancel your cable with charter and it will probably help a little bit |
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| It's not good for customers the only other provider in my area is ATT and Uverse is not in my area yet. Like I said I've had good service with them I could most likely deal with Comcast but not Time Warner |
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morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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said by jeffro:How can I make this "gobble up" procedure move along faster?  |
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Everyone keeps talking about Comcast ending up with parts of Charter. What I don't get is how does Comcast get around the 30% market share if they don't win their FCC fight. Maybe that will be how they get out of the 30% market cap. You remove your (Comcast)cap and upgrade to Docsis 3 and we will remove our (FCC)cap. |
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said by freebird317:I use to work for Charter many years ago on the HSI side of things. I knew then that something like this was only a matter of time. Charter's network is horrible (at least it was on the west coast), the employees are treated like crap and I was very glad to be moving on. One of the worst companies I ever worked for and I am glad to see this. Me too. The day I walked out of that place for the last time felt like being released from a prison. I hated the place and how we were treated there. |
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said by jeffro: How can I make this "gobble up" procedure move along faster? Try consulting Monica Lewinski |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to zed260
said by zed260:bankrupt cable companys are acutly pretty good deals you can get huge chunks of teratory at vary low prices more terratory also means better rates on programing costs and many other stuff
Territory = spectrum = profit.
Its very hard not to make a profit with franchise territory or spectrum. You will always have a minimum level of customers. I think most of Charter is outside VZ/FIOS, so it has a captive audience. Even where Uverse supposedly exists, ATT wires only the easiest, most residential, highest income blocks, MDUs, old urban area, retail/professional/industrial areas, and underground fed areas (unless a cul-de-sac subdivision) are unlikely to ever get Uverse. An existing cable company has access to all those non-Uverse areas. |
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 AMDUSERPremium
join:2003-05-28
Earth
kudos:1
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That depends, the programing cost come down with more subsribers.. - IIRC, a higher up at TWC mentioned that they could lower programing costs by 1/9th if they bought Charter.
(The CEO or CFO of TWC said Charter was expensive- [It is, based on debt load per consumer.])
There are obvious benefits for being able to purchase equipment in bulk, (which could easily be millions of dollars for convertor boxes, cable modems etc.)It helps drive the cost down. |
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