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Comcast-Time Warner Merger Would Hurt Municipal Broadband

If the feds allow two of the biggest cable companies to combine, municipalities would lose even more power to create high-quality, low-cost publicly owned broadband services for their citizens.

When you remove satellite Internet services from the equation, Comcast actually has as much as 55 percent of all TV and broadband subscribers, according to the Economist, which also pointed out that three-quarters of households have no choice other than their local cable provider when it comes to Internet access. A combined Comcast-Time Warner, according to the publication, would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets.

by Tod Newcombe

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-comcast-time-warner-merger-concerns.html

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