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US: California PUC Commissioner opposes Comcast-TWC

By  |  April 12, 2015
US: California PUC Commissioner opposes Comcast-TWC

The California Public Utilities Commission is still vetting an administrative judge recommendation that approved the Comcast-TWC deal with conditions, but PUC commissioner Mike Florio isn’t waiting for the vote, already signaling in an “alternative proposed decision” Friday that he would deny it.

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    Florio concluded that the merger “will likely reduce competition in the markets for wholesale inputs such as special access used by competitive service providers [and] constraining consumer options for those competitive services” and that “no conditions could mitigate all of the negative impacts of the proposed transaction.”

     

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