Why did the Comcast and Time Warner Cable merger fail?

Comcast announced today that it is ending its quest to acquire Time Warner. Brian Roberts, Comcast CEO, said, “We structured this deal so that if the government didn't agree, we could walk away.” It turns out that the government didn't agree. read more

Wheeler made these remarks without qualifying conditions on market structure or the prevention of companies such as Comcast engaging in mergers and acquisitions, such as the Comcast-Time Warner merger pending before the FCC. read more

But now that Comcast’s attempted merger has imploded, for once it seems possible that all those aggravated consumers really did matter. To loosely paraphrase Faulkner, the fate of the Comcast–Time Warner Cable deal became the sum of our customer service misfortunes. read more

The Comcast merger with Time Warner is officially over. I guess you could say that we are all responsible, all of us who have complained about their horrible customer service over the years. read more

Comcast’s decision spells the end of a deal that would have combined the two biggest cable operators in the U.S. to create an Internet and cable behemoth. Together, Comcast and Time Warner would have served approximately 30 million customers and controlled roughly 57 percent of the market for broadband and 30 percent of the market for pay TV. read more