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kudos:2 | reply to Komo Misomo
Re: How exactly? Your math is inaccurate. As a basic example, take a municipality that has AT&T and Charter as the comfortable duopoly. Then, let Charter be acquired by Cox. Now the comfortable duopoly in that municipality is AT&T and Cox. How did the competitive landscape in the municipality change by an MSO being acquired by another? |
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| AT&T leaves the market because they don't want to upgrade DSL.
Charter merges with Cox and Time Warner Cable, creating a national geographical monopoly, no longer feebly checked by a telco competitor that's so powerful, it enjoys regulator capture and elbowing out any future competitors.
The result is....
...not more competition...
but..... |
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| said by Komo Misomo :AT&T leaves the market because they don't want to upgrade DSL.
Charter merges with Cox and Time Warner Cable, creating a national geographical monopoly, no longer feebly checked by a telco competitor that's so powerful, it enjoys regulator capture and elbowing out any future competitors.
The result is....
...not more competition...
but.....
Do you actually believe that? |
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