Charter to Prepare Offer Letter for Time Warner Cable

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According to a report from Bloomberg, Time Warner Cable could have an offer to buy from Charter Communications in hand by sometime next week. The offer to buy would be a cash/stock combination valued at an estimated $62 Billion dollars.

Charter, the fourth-largest U.S. cable company, could generate as much as $1 billion in annual cost savings with better deals on programming and by cutting overhead.
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I see no good coming from this. Cable companies are already way too big and now they all just want to buy each other and make one big company.
 
So, the antitrust laws that exist within the USA have basically eroded over the past two decades. I thought we were suppose to stop monopolies, yet in almost every field, we've now will have just a few super corps.
 
I don't think anyone here on the [H] is going to believe that better deals on programming crap.
 
I thought charter was bankrupt?? or at least file for it. Besides i have charter and their rates as usual going up. fuckers.
 
Jeez. I'm currently on Time Warner, but that's only been over the past couple of years after they bought out my previous provider. The service here has been bought and sold so many times over the last decade that I can't keep track any longer. It's changed hands at least six times.
 
acidrain97 said:
I thought charter was bankrupt?? or at least file for it. Besides i have charter and their rates as usual going up. fuckers.
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I also thought Charter was bankrupt
I have Charter also so I agree with the rate increase as always with lesser and lesser channels/features for the same price
I hate that company (Charter) with a passion but they are the only provider in my area (Besides Uverse which I can't have because I rent)


I hope nothing bad becomes of this
 
It was always going to be a bad result. Allowing consolidation by not enforcing the anti-trust laws that do exist and are on the books, never ends well. The Airlines are the biggest example. an industry allowed to consolidate itself into oblivion.

If consolidation was a good thing that leads to a better stronger industry.... then the Airline industry wouldn't still be in the verge of bankruptcy for 40 years straight.

We will end up with ONE cable company.... called Verizon in case you don't see it coming... and prices will be commensurate with any monopoly allowed to run rampant across the countryside.

Same is occurring in the wireless cell phone service industry, which will also end up consolidating into one company... Verizon, in case you didn't see that coming.

The NATURAL result of unregulated capitalism is corporate cannibalism and ultimately one corporation, as the big fish, eating all the little fish until there are no other fish. There is NO FORCE exerted from the outside to limit or stop that natural outcome.

Pay no attention to the fact that, the much vaunted "competition breeds innovation and affordability" part of Capitalism can only be assured by Government Regulation, again, no outside force exists to stop the eventual consolidation into a single monopoly result.

So enjoy your eventual ONE CORPORATION ruling the world, making everything, employing everyone, and deciding what kind of life and society humans live. ... ultimately it will be known as SKYNET CORPORATION.... only the robots are just assholes we call Republicans. :eek::rolleyes::p
 
Does charter have caps on their Internet?


If so this will suck...
 
xX_Jack_Carver_Xx said:
So enjoy your eventual ONE CORPORATION ruling the world, making everything, employing everyone, and deciding what kind of life and society humans live. ... ultimately it will be known as SKYNET CORPORATION.... only the robots are just assholes we call Republicans. :eek::rolleyes::p
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You might consider switching to decaf. Or Haldol.
 
Scooter30 said:
I don't think anyone here on the [H] is going to believe that better deals on programming crap.
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LOL.. of course charter will get better deals on programming.. it just will not be passed on to the customers

:D
 
bink said:
Does charter have caps on their Internet?


If so this will suck...
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To be honest I have never seen a cap. My average in a month is well over 250gb. Most of it is from using upload bandwidth. Running radio stations at around 2.5 mbits 24/7 can suck up a lot. Plus youtube/porn/netfix/newsgroups/etc so yeah I'm a bandwidth hog. No torrents though... I have the newsgroups much safer.

-ACiD
 
And speaking of Charter their cable is real crappy. They must use a ton of compression. 1080i really looks like shit, even 720p is better but you can see a lot of grain in the picture. Watching dark movies/channels are somewhat unbearable. Channels like Fox news, Discovery or local TV look better but still grainy. Could be my setup up who knows. I recently just got into HD tv so still learning. To be honest my 14 year old Sony 32in Triniton TV (RIP) looked better.

-ACiD
 
acidrain97 said:
And speaking of Charter their cable is real crappy. They must use a ton of compression. 1080i really looks like shit, even 720p is better but you can see a lot of grain in the picture. Watching dark movies/channels are somewhat unbearable. Channels like Fox news, Discovery or local TV look better but still grainy. Could be my setup up who knows. I recently just got into HD tv so still learning. To be honest my 14 year old Sony 32in Triniton TV (RIP) looked better.

-ACiD
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We have that here with TWC. That could be market dependent though. I doubt the areas infrastructure was even touched when TWC bought out Insight.
 
Yes, they limit and then throttle past the limit. I'm on the Ultra 100 tier which has a soft cap of 500GB.

Only CBN (Charter Business) allows cap-less access, server support, etc. Our SLA on CBN 100/5 is around 94%, home U100 is around 84-86%.
 
in addition to what thetaone posted above, the plus package which is base package, its 30 down, 5 up. and a 250GB softcap.
 
Wait..what??? Charter's finances have been crap for years, or so I have read. So they have the money to buy TWC?
 
acidrain97 said:
To be honest I have never seen a cap. My average in a month is well over 250gb. Most of it is from using upload bandwidth. Running radio stations at around 2.5 mbits 24/7 can suck up a lot. Plus youtube/porn/netfix/newsgroups/etc so yeah I'm a bandwidth hog. No torrents though... I have the newsgroups much safer.

-ACiD
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I hit the "cap" couple years ago. Was downloading over 1TB 700GB-2TB a month. Was eventually cut off completely. Account got terminated. Had to get a business account which i did. Been good ever since.
 
I'm a little worried about this. Charter advertises a 250GB cap on their home plans. I currently use on average 1.5TB a month on my TWC internet with no problems.

I also get 35/5.9 (actual modem subscribed speeds) for $50/mo with TWC, how will Charter's plans compare or will they keep the TWC plans as they are I wonder.
 
kumquat said:
And Sprint wants to buy T-Mobile. It's crazytown.
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That is even more stupid. The US government killed AT&T attempt to buy T-Mobile, and now Sprint wants to try? Guess they figure that is one way for them to start switching to GSM.
 
qdemn7 said:
Wait..what??? Charter's finances have been crap for years, or so I have read. So they have the money to buy TWC?
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AOL had less money than Time Warner and bought them. So I think they just like giving themselves away to places.
 
qdemn7 said:
That is even more stupid. The US government killed AT&T attempt to buy T-Mobile, and now Sprint wants to try? Guess they figure that is one way for them to start switching to GSM.
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It has to do with size. AT&T buying T Mobile makes the largest carrier becomes an even larger #1 carrier and move of a gap between #1 and #2. Sprint and t mobile merging just makes a larger #3 carrier that is closer to the size of #2.
 
SirMaster said:
I'm a little worried about this. Charter advertises a 250GB cap on their home plans. I currently use on average 1.5TB a month on my TWC internet with no problems.

I also get 35/5.9 (actual modem subscribed speeds) for $50/mo with TWC, how will Charter's plans compare or will they keep the TWC plans as they are I wonder.
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pay 65 a mo for Charter Business and have no cap.
 
German Muscle said:
pay 65 a mo for Charter Business and have no cap.
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4mbit upload instead of my 5.9 now really stinks though. 5.9 is barely enough now. I was hoping to move to 10 upload soon, not the other direction...

But it looks like this is what I would have to do if this happens.
 
Exavior said:
It has to do with size. AT&T buying T Mobile makes the largest carrier becomes an even larger #1 carrier and move of a gap between #1 and #2. Sprint and t mobile merging just makes a larger #3 carrier that is closer to the size of #2.
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Very good point, had not thought of that.
 
Is Charter any good, I think we can only get AT&T, and Comcast (as soon as they have completed installing the fiber, for our park), why would anyone want to buy a average to mediocre provider, unless they can improve things?
 
Charter should be better than UVerse. UVerse uses some stupid interleaved mode connection that increases your latency by about 20% across the board compared to cable. Unacceptable for someone who plays online games like me.
 
German Muscle said:
I work at charter. What do you mean by "Network Management policies"?
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He means your bean counter's tendencies to punish people with imaginary caps (as if there is a bucket of bits that can be depleted) rather than investing some of the billions of dollars in profits they get into proper infrastructure.
 
Just when I was starting to enjoy my 50/5 service with no cap. Freakin' lovely.
 
Skillz said:
Just when I was starting to enjoy my 50/5 service with no cap. Freakin' lovely.
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Same boat, love the 50/5 and no cap. I'm just hoping that if they do sell that nothing changes other than a name, hoping anyways.
 
I know, but one can hope. Problem is, where I live it's either cable internet, dish or DSL. I've had DSL and wanted faster, so TW was it.
 
My only other option is AT&T's regular DSL service. 6Mbps tops.
 
Finally decided to get the login for TWC to see the usage.

618GB this month so far. Whoa.
 
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