maartenaElmo Premium Member join:2002-05-10 Orange, CA
23 recommendations |
maartena
Premium Member
2017-Aug-9 12:44 pm
MegacorporationsPretty soon you can only choose one provider for your television and internet need, "MegaCorp, Inc.". They will have bought all cable, satellite, and telecommunication outlets..... and will have done so under the guise of "we will provide better service".
We need more competition. Not less. |
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no one going to be happyI have not heard anyone in a territory that was recently acquired by Altice stating they were happy with the new management. I know from experience no one in the territories picked up by Charter are happy. I can only see this causing even more unhappiness all around. |
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7 recommendations |
Anon05071
Anon
2017-Aug-9 12:47 pm
BUTTT 70% of Chartercustomers from the TWC merger have not been put on Jacked up rates yet. That has to be done first right?? |
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Chris 313Because It's Geekier Premium Member join:2004-07-18 Houma, LA ·AT&T FTTP ·Comcast XFINITY
7 recommendations |
Forget CharterWhile Altice buying Charter would be a great thing, considering all the potential, they need to focus on digesting and upgrading what they already have. Having an entire footprint of like 10 mil people on fiber would be infinitely more profitable, then dealing with trying to do that while trying to choke down a 100+ billion buy of a bunch of systems in various states of upgrade or non-upgrade as the Charter forum says. Then there's the matter of trying to upgrade all that to Fiber as well. Nice trick if you can manage it, but I doubt it.
Lack of resources and confidence, indeed. |
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n2jtx join:2001-01-13 Glen Head, NY
5 recommendations |
n2jtx
Member
2017-Aug-9 1:15 pm
Tom RutledgeIt would be funny if Altice bought Charter since their CEO Tom Rutledge had been a Cablevision VP for a long time. |
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Does anybody really want Atlice buying out Charter Communications?Does anybody really want Atlice buying out Charter Communications? Considering Patrick Drahi cost cutting. Here is an example of some of the cost cutting. "That kind of cost-cutting is a tall order in any market, but will be especially so in New York, where Altice will be going up against Verizon FiOS,” Moffett wrote. “Cost reductions like those won’t just mean cutting SG&A. It will mean slashing customer service; repair and maintenance, and sales and marketing (specifically, channel mix optimization, and back-office upgrades). It’s hard not to imagine that that might have at least some impact on market share.” Here is the link to the web page I got the quote from. » www.multichannel.com/new ··· s/393866 |
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atuarreHere come the drums Premium Member join:2004-02-14 EC/SETX SWLA
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atuarre
Premium Member
2017-Aug-9 2:00 pm
RESo Altice claims they are going to do FTTH but then why waste money on acquiring Charter. Put the money into your network so you can get FTTH rolled out. |
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geekMad Scientist at Work Premium Member join:2002-01-07 Southbury, CT
3 recommendations |
geek
Premium Member
2017-Aug-9 12:59 pm
Buy Frontier!Think about it. 1. You need to basically rebuild infrastructure. Frontier desperately needs this. 2. Frontier is waaaay cheaper. 3. Frontier does have some good territory.
So why not Frontier instead of Charter? |
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3 recommendations |
Now this is getting ridiculous!Someone needs to make a move already.
This whole merger speculation thing is getting old. |
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3 recommendations |
Anond15dd
Anon
2017-Aug-9 2:28 pm
FTTH byeSay goodbye to FTTH if this happens. |
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Not going to happen!Not going to happen! Charter Communications has already rejected buy out offers from Verizon and Soft Bank/Sprint. I see no reason why Atlice will be successful when other offers were rejected and Charter Communications has made it clear they are not interested in selling at this time. |
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