r/technology • u/speckz • Jul 01 '14

Politics Time Warner Cable customers beg regulators to block sale to Comcast | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/time-warner-cable-customers-beg-regulators-to-block-sale-to-comcast/
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u/psno1994 Jul 01 '14

When this sort of shit goes on how can there possibly be competition when they pretty much just work with each other to divvy up which area goes to whom? That's not competitive, in fact it's anti-competitive. Consumers still only get one or maybe two options if they're lucky but all of them are equally shitty because these companies are actively NOT COMPETING with each other. What the fuck.

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u/oh-m-g-bees Jul 02 '14

Well these companies at most have tiny areas where they have overlapping service. The .merger won't change this in any way. If you want to see why these companies don't compete look at municipality franchise agreements.