Local Internet Availability Unaffected by Charter-Cox Merger

Local internet availability unaffected by Charter-Cox merger

The announced merger of Charter Communications and Cox Communications isn’t likely to cause any immediate changes in high-speed internet availability in Isle of Wight or Surry counties, a Charter official told the Times. Charter, which sells its cable TV and internet services under the Spectrum brand and is the dominant internet service provider in Isle of Wight, said in a May 16 news release it had entered into a $34.5 billion “definitive agree…

Charter and Cox proposed merger a potential MSO Behemoth

Charter and Cox announced a definitive agreement to combine their businesses, potentially creating a multiple system operator (MSO) Behemoth.

Economist: Charter/Cox Deal Unlikely to Pose Anticompetitive Threat

The $34.1 billion Charter Communications/Cox Communications deal announced Friday (see [Ref:2505160060]) is a strategic adaptation to changing competitive pressures in the cable ISP marketplace, not an attempt to monopolize markets, wrote Eric Fruits, a senior scholar at the International Center...