California PUC Commissioner Files Alternate Comcast-TWC Decision Urging Rejection of Deal
California Public Utilities Commissioner Mike Florio filed an alternate decision Friday that calls for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to reject the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal. Florio noted in the filing that Comcast already has a history of not…
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abiding by conditions attached to its previous merger with NBCUniversal and that the company is challenging all of the 25 conditions attached to a proposed CPUC decision approving the deal. The CPUC is set to hold an all-party public meeting Tuesday in Los Angeles on the proposed decision approving the deal. “We can’t afford to let one corporation have so much control over our choices and how much we’ll pay to connect and communicate,” a Consumers Union spokesman said in a statement. “We applaud Commissioner Florio for adding his voice to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have already called for this merger to be rejected. The CPUC should stand with consumers and oppose this deal.”