There’s no national broadband market, said Comcast Executive...
There’s no national broadband market, said Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen in a meeting Tuesday with Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and aide Clint Odom, according to an ex parte filing posted in docket 14-57 Friday (http://bit.ly/ZBYXdY). Any assessment of whether…
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Comcast’s proposed buy of Time Warner Cable hurts competition in broadband should examine the market at the local level, the filing said. Comcast and TWC serve distinct geographic areas, Cohen said. Critics arguing that Comcast would control too much of the broadband market after the deal are unfairly not including DSL and wireless broadband or using too high a speed threshold for defining broadband, Cohen said. “DSL and wireless do meet some consumers’ broadband needs for some uses, even if these technologies are not yet perfect substitutes for all consumers.” At a 10 Mbps broadband threshold, Comcast would control 40 percent of fixed connections after the transaction, while at a 25 Mbps threshold, that number increases by less than 1 percent, Cohen said.