Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Comcast can't answer the only important question about the TWC merger: why not compete?

Today, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen published a 2,900 word essay called "Setting the record straight on criticisms of the Comcast-TWC transaction." Naturally, this noble effort in corporate spin required making inappropriate references to great leaders. "While it may be easy for critics to do this from the sidelines," Cohen wrote, "we would rather try, in the spirit of President Kennedy, to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

So let's do that, Mr. Cohen. Let's light a candle on the only relevant question in the Comcast / Time Warner merger that Comcast has refused to answer.

Are you chicken?

If competition is so vibrant and healthy in the broadband market — enough to make net neutrality regulation a bad idea,...

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