Comments on Altice/Cablevision Due Dec. 7, Replies Dec. 22
Comments are due by Dec. 7 in Altice's proposed purchase of Cablevision, and replies Dec. 22, the FCC Wireless Bureau said in a public notice in docket 15-257 and in Friday's Daily Digest. The $17.7 billion transaction isn't expected to…
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face major regulatory difficulties (see 1509170015). In its application filed in October, the companies said the deal "improves the competitive prospects for Cablevision in this market and poses no anticompetitive issues of vertical or horizontal consolidation in the domestic cable or broadband market" and would give Cablevision the benefits of increased scale "without the deleterious effect of substantial increased domestic consolidation in cable or broadband."