said by IowaCowboy:Signs that a TV provider is wanting to be bought out.
1. Frequent carriage disputes with content providers (want to have low accounts payable to make the provider look attractive to a buyer).
2. Frequent rate increases and added new fees so they have a healthy accounts receivable portfolio).
3. Refusal to upgrade it's infrastructure so they have low debt.
And TWC fits the bill. It's very clear to me that they have been planning this for some time and got a new CEO to help sell the business.
Time warner cable customer's may not to hear it but the fact is TWC doesn't want to upgrade and want to milk there old lines for as long as they can before selling off. They only are still unlimited so they don't make a big PR thing out of doing caps when trying to sell to Comcast. If the deal fails there will be a dark age for all time warner cable customers as they jack rates up even more and slowly do more capping plans until they remove unlimited all together so they can milk some more.
Then they will go to the government and say they are to big to fail and get more money to sit on.