Charter takeover of Time Warner would be anticompetitive, protests say
![Author Piotr Flatau James Dean memorial junction in California on crossing of highway 46 and 41.](https://i0.wp.com/www.tellusventure.com/images/2015/8/james_dean_junction.jpg?w=300&ssl=1)
Maybe Comcast and Charter will get a junction named after them too.
Charter Communication’s bid to buy two rival cable companies, Time Warner and Bright House, appears headed down the same rhetorical highway that led to the death of Comcast’s similar attempt earlier this year. At least in California.
Three formal protests were filed against Charter’s request for approval of the deal from the California Public Utilities Commission, by the CPUC’s own office of ratepayer advocates (ORA) and various advocacy organisations.… More