- Category: Comcast Watch
The Stock Market Is on Edge About A Cable Merger
NY Times writer Jeff Sommers recounts the amount of angst being felt on Wall Street because of all of the pushback against the proposed Comcast/Time Warner merger:
Investor concerns focus mainly on the Internet side of cable operations. They include these questions: Will the Federal Communications Commission act to ensure an open Internet — also known as net neutrality — and competitive and reasonably
priced choices for consumers, in ways that might impair cable company profitability? Will federal agencies block the merger outright, or impose conditions that might make it economically unattractive? And if the merger does not take place, auguring a tougher regulatory climate, are the two companies, particularly Time Warner Cable, appropriately priced?


