Reviews:
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Verizon FiOS
| More cable mergers? Doubtful. If your talking about CC acquiring/merging with TW.. that is NOT likely.. they'd own TOO much geography and market share for the lynchmob of public opinon to kill the deal in and of itself. As for acquring Disney.. not likely either.. this is not a merger of equals and the two companies have some conflicts of interest and overlapping/competing businesses which will destroy (utlimately) value of the separate entities.
Tell me how many content companies who merged lately have become a better value to the consumer?
You could ask the same for Telecom too.. On that note there is mixed news.. AT&T is a slow failure in progress and Verizon is leaning that way in it's coordinated duopolistic practices.
We can also be skeptical of a cable company which cried poor for so many reaons.. be it content negotiations, sparking a mini war with consumers over 250gb data caps, targeted duopolistic practices (not just broadband, video and phone service too!), and overall price increases in at least the past decade. Now they're flush with cash to acquire another business? Hmm, that doesn't smell right! One last thing, a CC/Disney deal has the potential to make TimeWarner/AOL or Sprint/Nextel look like a merger made in heaven.
There is only ONE cable merger that has a remote chance of happening.. and that's TW & Cablevision.. but not likely.. the Cablevision family isn't interested in selling off the business and there is a potential backlash in the customer base if the competitiveness of the Cablevision product becomes closer to the Time Warner product lineup. Not to mention, CV has enough failing businesses (ahem, Newsday, cough, cough) to write off losses against profits in Cable assets for some time to come. |
Reviews:
·Comcast
 ·Comcast Digital ..
| actually within the next 5 to 10 years i see comcast acquiring time warner and possibly cablevision. Also I see verizon and att merging as well. The democrats have a tendency to let mergers fall through the cracks. Just look at att taking over media one and tci then comcast buying out att broadband. |
