NoShow Posted October 18, 2006 CID Share Posted October 18, 2006 Comcast is taking over TimeWarner here in my area, so hopefully they'll offer better speeds than what we currently have. One can hope anyway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spartansc Posted October 18, 2006 CID Share Posted October 18, 2006 Thats odd. Time Warner is taking over Comcast in my area. : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoShow Posted October 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted October 19, 2006 Yea they (TimeWarner) are taking over in several different places. I have no idea as to why they're letting Comcast take over here.. Maybe time will tell. Who knows.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saygoodie Posted October 20, 2006 CID Share Posted October 20, 2006 They're probably just "taking over" places where they make more money and selling places they don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisesplicer Posted October 20, 2006 CID Share Posted October 20, 2006 It may also have to do with available fiber links. Sometimes they trade franchises in order to be able to service an area better. For instance, if a Time Warner town is surrounded by Comcast towns, you best forget about upgrading that town because it would require a new overbuild to get the new fiber to it. I'm sure a cooperation wouldn't happen. So the trade happens and the upgrade for both systems is cheaper. I have seen it happen alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AetherTide Posted October 20, 2006 CID Share Posted October 20, 2006 As part of the Adelphia deal, Time Warner and Comcast also traded some areas. LA was mostly Adelphia and went to Time Warner, so Comcast swapped it's LA base for Time Warner's Houston base and so on. As sunrisesplicer said, it is because it is cheap to upgrade systems where you have a large base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CtBruda Posted October 20, 2006 CID Share Posted October 20, 2006 That's exactly right. All part of the negotiations ongoing since the bankruptcy of Adelphia. Comcast owned about a 25 percent share in Time Warner at the time of the Adelphia takeover, and used that to leverage some very profitable markets, trading some less profitable systems. St. Paul is a Comcast market, and they've been salivating over Minneapolis for quite a while. Thanks to this deal, Comcast now services the entire Twin Cities. Cheap to upgrade, yes...especially when the networks are so similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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