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Crossing the Rubicon: Why the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger Should Be Blocked
Global Competition Review (2014)
  • Maurice E Stucke
  • Allen P. Grunes
Abstract
Comcast and Time Warner Cable say their proposed $45 billion merger would not raise prices -- and instead lead to real benefits -- for cable and broadband customers across the country.

But, as we discuss, the deal raises serious concerns of a creeping monopolist and the ability of a powerful media buyer to harm rivals.
Keywords
  • cable,
  • broadband,
  • antitrust,
  • Section 7,
  • incipiency
Disciplines
Publication Date
June, 2014
Citation Information
Maurice E Stucke and Allen P. Grunes. "Crossing the Rubicon: Why the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger Should Be Blocked" Global Competition Review (2014) p. 1 - 7
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maurice_stucke/44/