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California Public Utilities Commissioner Mike Florio is pushing for the commission to reject the Comcast Time Warner Cable merger, claiming it fails to serve the public interest and no number of deal conditions can change this.
Florio's proposed decision (pdf) argues that the deal poses the risk of "a potential lowering of quality of service and customer service standards to a lower common denominator, an increasing monoculture in the fixed broadband market in California, concerns about privacy, less competition in the special access market, andmost importantlyless competition in the broadband market, both the retail segment of that market and the segment that allows edge or content providers to reach retail subscribers."
The California PUC is planning a public hearing on the merger from 1 PM To 5 PM Tuesday at Junipero Serra State Office Building, 320 W. 4th St. in Los Angeles.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/California-CPUC-Member-Pushes-For-Comcast-Merger-Rejection-133338
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(68,644 posts)So often it goes the other way, commissioners supporting consolidation.