Time Warner Cable Acquiring New Wave Assets

I have insight in Columbus, and it would actualy make sence since TWC encircles Insight's territory, so connecting/merging the network would be a lil easier. Plus Insight allready resells RR here so there is allready a connection at the office to TWC/RR.

I would be ok with that because in talking with Insight.. They don't have any current plans to bring DOCSIS 3.x to columbus... Even though their "KY/IN" Markets have faster speeds than 15MB down...

They don't see the need to offer anything better in Columbus.. I would love Insight to go away..

We've allways been the blck sheep of them, yet they keep us around

Lucky Subscribers....

Live in New Waves IL footprint and still waiting on DOCSIS 3.0 roll out. I can see TW expediting those areas to 3.0 as New Wave was test marketing DOCSIS 3.0 in KY.

As for the Phone subscribers, I am sure Big River Telephone will get a hefty chunk from New Wave for this sell off, Big River Telephone was a third party that New Wave contracted for their VOIP service.

In the end, as a current subscriber, I doubt I could be so lucky as those in KY and W. TN.....

Instead of buying other corporations. TW needs to spend that money to upgrade their network to the new Docsis 3.0 wideband.
Most of Los Angeles TW customers, has no Docsis 3.0 wideband.

They should get even rural areas broadband, first

They should do whatever it takes to make a profit. They're a business, not welfare.

So why did they write and have passed an anti-municipal fiber build law in North Carolina? I didn't realize a simple business was allowed to control a state's legislature.

No "business" gets as many political benefits, tax benefits, rights of way, "broadband grants", and engages in as much anti-competitive behavior as TW, except maybe AT&T.

Why should government be allowed to get involved in providing a commercial service? Talk about unfair competition...

why? are you kidding me? goverment is a big corperation and when theres money to be made you can be sure corperat mogles will sniff who's ever asses they have to to hear that (CH$CHING)

The amount of customers TWC is picking up in this deal is small... the amount served by one large hub in SoCal.

TWC has probably 50-75 hubs in SoCal.

TWC as an entire company does NOT dictate the upgrades. those are done by each division. They're basically on their own with little to no corp. oversight. They've always operated that way and will always do so. TWC always brings up about integrating the entire company into TWC East and TWC West which NEVER has happened yet and was suppose to be done after they split from Time Warner, Inc.

If you want DOC 3.0 take it up with the President of the LA market/division not with TWC Corp.

To the President of the LA market/division.

why its taking so long to get the wideband 30/5 & 50/5 to my area
( 90039 ).
Downton LA has it since 2010

LOL. like they even read this crazy blog.

"TWC as an entire company does NOT dictate the upgrades. those are done by each division. They're basically on their own with little to no corp. oversight. They've always operated that way and will always do so. TWC always brings up about integrating the entire company into TWC East and TWC West which NEVER has happened yet and was suppose to be done after they split from Time Warner, Inc."

Its happening daily...you cant just click your fingers and expect it to happen.

Hob

Great more consolidation Is just what Americans need. There is a reason why Al Jazeraa English and RT America are only carried by local cable companies because the giants like Comcast and TW are non-neutral with agendas.

According to the FCC cable search database most of these systems owned by New Wave communications are at 750MHz which should allow for TWC to bring in more services via SDV. TWC already has SDV in most of its Kentucky systems that run on motorola cable boxes.

where were you able to look that up on their site?

type in the community of your choice and when it comes up click on it then find an annual report and click on it and click on to proceed to section III and when on this page if the system is 750MHz it will say downsteam bandwidth available is 54MHz to 750MHz. Note some systems have been upgraded since the last update of annual reports in 2007 and not all systems have one. I know the TWC system that I am on is listed as 750MHz which was true until 2008 when it was rebuilt to 860MHz.

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just stay out of suddenlinks area, id rather deal with suddenlink then a crappy power house..(refering to time warner)

Surprised TW decided to get back in here. TW was our cbale company for about 2 years until they sold out to Charter. This was about 12 years ago.

It would have made more sense to use all that money to upgrade there network

When we first moved here in '85 TWC was the cable company. TWC then sold it to another company cant remember name. That company ran it for couple years or so. Then they sold it to another company which ran it for a little while.

Which they sold it to adelphia cable which ran it till company ended. That's when TWC took our area back over.

Here in North Texas there were serveral previous cable providers in the TWC North Texas cluster such as TCI and Paragon Cable which became Time Warner Cable shortly before AT&T aqquired Time Warner Cable and merged their systems with the former TCI systems purchased by AT&T in '99 and then Comcast bought out AT&T in 2003 and then in 2006 the North Texas Systems were sold to Time Warner Cable in exchange for some of TWC's properties in areas where Comcast had already been established. The main thing TWC did when they took over was add a butt load of channels and rebuilt the aging 550MHz A/B line system that was in Dallas to 860MHz and brought the rest of the 750MHz single line areas up to 860MHz as well.

We got boomerang and CNN international and other goodies almost right after TWC took over in 2006.

So I think these systems when aqquired will get a channel boost but the only thing that I see that will be likely dropped is NFL Network and NFL Red Zone.

Frontier had cable services in Ohio. Before them it was Cox in many areas.

Marion, Ohio had: Cox, Frontier, Adelphia, and then TWC. and now is up on the block to be sold/spun off to Windjammer. -- another TWC arm in the cable business. TWC and Comcast spun a good amount of systems off to Windjammer that they picked up from the Adelphia/Comcast/TWC deal that they didn't want.