Like millions of others around the U.S., I got a letter in the mail this weekend telling me that my cable service would not change soon, but later will change dramatically. That’s because the Time Warner Cable-Charter Communications merger has gone through. Among the changes already announced: our cable company now wants us to call it Spectrum (as though it’s a pal and not a giant corporation we send ungodly money to every month in exchange for endless re-runs of Big Bang Theory and Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
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Time Warner Cable says it’s being bullied by five North Carolina electric cooperatives and is accusing the rural monopolies of charging outrageous fees for letting the cable company lease space on utility poles. Time Warner has sued the rural co-ops at the N.C. Utilities Commission, asking the commission to help resolve ongoing contract disputes over fees the co-ops charge for leasing space on some 75,000 utility poles in North Carolina. The disputes result from utility pole lease contracts that expired in recent years and are bogged down in negotiations. Charter Communications’ recent purchase of Time Warner Cable is likely to create plenty of upheaval as the companies go through the process of combining. Given that both companies’ consumer-satisfaction records aren’t stellar, competitors are looking forward to trying to lure some of Time Warner Cable’s 2.13 million customers in Ohio to their pay-TV services. |