[Davisgig] Fw: Re: Fw: Charter is the new Comcast

[Shneor Sherman]

--- On Tue, 6/2/15, Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com> wrote:

This notice is from a national organization that favors unfettered broadband. It provides an opportunity to comment to the FCC directly regarding broadband. 

Shneor
>         From: Candace Clement, FreePress.net <info at freepress.net>
> Subject: Charter is the new Comcast
> To: "Shneor Sherman" <szsherm at yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, June 1, 2015, 11:06 AM
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> Hi Shneor,
> Charter's near the bottom of the barrel in
> Consumer Reports' latest ratings of U.S. cable
> companies. (Sound familiar?) But instead of improving its
> service or expanding its network the company wants to spend
> billions to swallow up Time Warner Cable.
> (Déjà vu ... all over again.)
> Tell
> the FCC that we need broadband buildout, not corporate
> buyouts.
> http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_charter_twc?t=1&akid=5224.10354758.V0paRf
> Candace
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> Hi Shneor,
> Just a few weeks after Comcast was forced to abandon its
> bid for Time Warner Cable, a new buyer emerged: Charter.
> Charter’s already the nation’s third biggest
> traditional cable company. It wants to buy Time Warner
> Cable, the second biggest cable company, along with a
> smaller company called Bright House that is a primary cable
> provider in cities like Tampa and Orlando.
> This new set of deals, with transactions valued at nearly
> $90 billion all told, would allow Charter and Comcast to
> control nearly two-thirds of the nation’s high-speed
> broadband customers.
> Once again we’re getting corporate buyouts
> instead of broadband buildout. This isn’t the
> way to get everyone in the U.S. online with better choices
> and better prices.
> Tell
> the FCC to say NO to buyouts and YES to
> buildout.
> This merger raises the same public interest concerns as
> the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal; it just sets us up for
> two giant nationwide cable companies instead of one
> super-giant Comcast. It would reinforce the monopoly status
> these companies enjoy in most communities and let them wield
> the same power to harm Internet users and online video
> competition.
> FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has admitted that we need more
> competition in the cable and broadband markets. But letting
> mergers like this one go through would only kill
> competition.
> Sign
> the petition opposing this cable merger.
> We need to pressure these companies to expand their
> networks, increase their speeds, improve customer service
> — and stop racing around looking for the next merger
> designed to appease Wall Street investors.
> Thanks for all that you do—
> Candace, Matt and the rest of the Free Press team
> freepress.net
> P.S. Enough with the mergers! Free Press helped stop the
> Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal and we're determined to
> stop this one too. Help fuel the fight with a donation
> of $10 (or more!) today. Thank you!
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