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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Updated // CCIA opposes Comcast/TWC merger
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Tue Jun 10 19:19:59 2014
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:51:23 -0700
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/ccia-opposes-comcasttwc/131661
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has come
out against the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. The association
includes Microsoft, Facebook, Google, eBay, Dish, Sprint, T-Mobile and
others, but CCIA's opposition was described as an "aggregate view" of
its members, rather than attributable to any one of them. "It is often
difficult for individual companies to voice their concerns in
competition investigations for fear of harming current or prospective
business relationships," said CCIA. In the letter to Sen. Al Franken
(D-Minn.), who had pressed them for their views, the groups said that
"if regulators were to conclude that the Comcast/Time Warner Cable
merger does not have a chance of substantially lessening competition,
then it is hard to imagine a real world merger that would." Franken,
rather than CCIA, publicized the letter.
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Previous item on this topic had a bad URL (at "The Hill"). This is another
take on the same story.
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