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Netflix officially comes out against the Comcast-TWC merger


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In addition to news on possible price increases, Netflix on Monday also officially took a stance against the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. In its letter to shareholders released Monday, Netflix said that a combined Comcast and TWC would "possess even more anticompetitive leverage to charge arbitrary interconnection tolls for access to their customers." To back up its reasoning, Netflix said that the decline of DSL has made cable Internet the default broadband technology for most Americans and claimed that if the merger were approved then many American households would have "Comcast as the only option for truly high-speed broadband" that offers service of 10Mbps or higher.

 

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