Broadband deployment is near-ubiquitous, and though it s hard for some to admit it, the pricing models have never been fairer. Viewers, employees and shareholders have all benefited.
— Leo Hindery, former president and CEO of TCI, Liberty Media and AT&T Broadband, in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which he argues that the proposed mergers of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and that of AT&T and DirecTV, should be approved. The consolidation of content and distribution companies has gone on for a long time, he writes, and no one can prove that any such mergers have harmed American consumers. Hindery s op-ed comes after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler just last week said there isn t enough competition in the broadband market. As our own Troy Wolverton wrote, Wheeler s comments suggest the agency will, at the very least, look skeptically at the proposed Comcast-Time Warner deal.
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