Will Charter try again to buy Time Warner Cable if Comcast deal collapses?
Comcast's Roberts Faces Rare Defeat After Trying to Go It Alone http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-23/comcast-s-roberts-faces-rare-defeat-after-trying-to-go-it-alone The tangled negotiations began when Charter made a hostile offer in January of $132.50 to acquire Time Warner Cable. Behind the scenes, Charter and Comcast were already discussing how they would carve up Time Warner Cable once the deal was done. Comcast would get subscribers in regions including New York City, North Carolina, New England and potentially Los Angeles, while Charter would get the rest. Roberts soon soured on the idea, and instead blindsided Charter by making a bid to buy all of Time Warner Cable. One reason was that he wasn't happy with how Charter and Malone's Liberty Media Corp., Charter's largest shareholder, were badmouthing Time Warner Cable, unusual in a traditionally collegial industry, people familiar with the matter said at the time. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
