NEW YORK — What killed Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable? Regulators’ desire to protect the Internet video industry that is reshaping TV. A combination of the No. 1 and No. 2 U.S. cable companies would have put ...

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(Bloomberg) Regulators pushed back by three weeks their informal deadline to complete consideration of Comcast Corp.’s proposed $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. U.S. officials need time to review in excess of 31,000 documents Time Warner Cable was ...

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Comcast announced on Monday a series of transactions designed to lower its debt and help clear the way for its acquisition of Time Warner Cable, including the sale of cable systems with 1.4 million subscribers to Charter and the spinoff of an additional 2.5 million subscribers into a new company.

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday approved Verizon Wireless’ $3.9 billion purchase of wireless spectrum from four of the nation’s largest cable companies but applied conditions to the deal to protect consumers from reduced competition and higher prices. Most ...

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WASHINGTON — If you’re reading this online, you’re fine. The day that was supposed to see thousands of people knocked off the Internet has arrived, but only a few people were affected. Thousands of Internet users across the U.S. and ...

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LOS ANGELES — Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said Tuesday that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The move comes as Britain’s communications regulator, Ofcom, enters the ...

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NEW YORK — Comcast, the country’s largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit. That limit, however, is very high, starting at 300 gigabytes for basic Internet plans. Only ...

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Comcast Corp., the country’s largest cable TV company, is bucking the trend among cable companies by making more money from its TV subscribers. While others are seeing declining revenue from the provision of TV signals, Comcast is still eking out ...

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The protracted battle over carriage rights between Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. and Time Warner Cable ended Wednesday with agreement on a multi-year deal. Time Warner agreed to carry 28 television stations that Hunt Valley-based Sinclair owns or operates in 17 ...

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