Comcast & Spectrum Merging?

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[@deniseg8312]

50 Cent has a new FAST channel called 50 Action. It's on the Roku Channel.

[@tamiasthechipmunk]

So if Comcast and Spectrum merge, they can go down with the Titanic together. How touching, so heartfelt. 😅

[@loulopez554]

Bottom line don't sign a long term contract with anyone.

[@game_master_rukia]

i've been a tmnt fan since 1987 when i was only 2. i'm looking forward to this even though i have the complete series dvd

[@RobertJohnson-PitDaddy]

I tried to use the Xumo box from Comcast because my family had one from Spectrum. The box was a joke as you couldn't get the same type of packages as Spectrum. I wound up giving it up as it just wasn't worth keeping it in our home.

[@HistoryNut-1701]

I live in NYS and I want to get TMHI back once they have capacity in my neighborhood again. I think the state will take steps that prevent these companies from pulling their services out of the state.

[@ceddycedchin]

No surprise. They are so similar in the cable TV, internet & mobile provider spaces. But Spectrum doesn't produce or own anything close to the content that Comcast does (they own NBC Universal/Peacock). What does this mean for consumers? As always, higher prices.

[@SBRemotes]

Please no. I am an Xfinity customer and have been stuck in a hospital for months with Spectrum. The Spectrum product was horrible, especially the awful news programs. After 2 days, I turned off the TV, opened my computer and never turned the TV on again. Xfinity is no champ either, but at least it's watchable.

[@gordon3178]

In the UK in my area we have cable,fibre,copper for the whole of UK one company called openreach deals with the copper,fibre side then we can switch between any provider using the same,copper,fibre without any extra cost so if I have one provider and I find a cheaper option I can switch without any charge and we us a pac key to switch providers and the old and new provider deals with me switching and cable has its own company that covers the uk

[@tkonzl6059]

I have 1 Gb fiber for $49/month after $30 off per month for a year. I don't know of anything that can compete with this speed at that price. We recognized the importance of Internet as a utility (instead of cable/satellite) many years ago and we've been OTA and streaming for 10+ years and have saved $1,000's over that time.

[@jaylove9844]

If a merger happens, expect a 20 percent rate hike.

[@xDeath35]

I hope they don't merge. I never have liked Comcast. Comcast likes to cap internet speeds.

[@arnovan2010]

I hope that Comcast and Spectrum do not Merge. Here in Central Florida where I live I actually have the choice of Spectrum or Comcast. Its a newer area so they wired for both. The Advantage I can play both against each other when my contract expires.

[@rasheedali615]

How is one area wired for both companies? Do you have conduits and stuff for both providers? I didn’t think they would be able to do that in areas. Also, AT&T should not be shutting down his copper phone line. Here in Northern California we have Comcast and the majority of my county is served by AT&T for landline service but two cities are FRONTIER.

[@arnovan2010]

@@rasheedali615 I live in a community that is building new homes in Central Florida. They are putting lines in for both Comcast and Spectrum and some of the new areas built after mine 3 years ago also have the choice of fiber. I have Comcast and my nextdoor neighbor has spectrum. So people will bounce between the two based on who gives the better deal.

[@fattytaft6779]

Comcast and Charter are the 2 options I have in my area so I hope they don’t merge, I’d have no choices.

[@arnovan2010]

Same here

[@G.ook11]

Info in my area game stop is closeing today

[@thistlemoon1]

Att is $60 for 25mb where I live. Spectrum is $60 for 100mb + phone. Who am I going to choose…

[@El_chero]

Hope it doesn’t not happens. Spectrum works amazing for me. No surprises on internet charges. But when merge prices always change (to up) to recover their “merge” costs

[@jony3860]

If the two merged, it would be too monopolistic over the cable industry. It should only be considered if cable was in its waning years like satellite. There are still too many customers in the industry.

[@simonbyrd6518]

All of the Rich are merging...like the T-1000's mercury pools..

[@jjc4577]

AT&Ts reaction to price caps in NY is very predictable. The market forces are not allowed to work and it causes less choice. Eventually, NY will end up subsidizing broadband at a cost to taxpayers.

[@glynnetolar4423]

Perhaps all by design.

[@nancybrown9706]

All I want for Christmas is fiber optic cable none of that other crap

[@LuckyPierre789]

I think Comcast is going to go after WBD once their quiet period is over from their most recent merger. More content and it gives them tons of IP for the Universal theme parks.

[@russmon]

I already thought they were, we had Comcast and then that was switched to Spectrum after several years in Southwest Ohio…. Whatever!!! 🤷‍♂️

[@stephenholloway6893]

They kinda do compete in the same market in some area. But one has the majority of the market and the other has a county or 2 in theirs. Louisville for example most of the viewing arwa has Charter Elizabethtown in Harden County has Comcast. In Atlanta it's vise versa majority Comcast but in Gwinnett County (or most of it) and Henry County Charter.

[@jko0526]

I have cable internet right now but I would love to try fiber internet. They are saying that it isn’t available right now where I live but it will be available soon.

[@dlewis9760]

My small city has it's own Gas + Electric company. They own the telephone poles. They had access to the dark fiber in the median strip of the interstate. They got into the fiber biz. It took me, almost downtown, about 4 years for my neighborhood to get it. Took my church, which is about a 1000 ft from the town green another 18-24 months to get it. Once we were fiber'd up, they've started offering fiber to the rural places that may not even have internet. Yeah, there's places near me that never had internet getting fiber. Because the interstate runs through their towns even if the nearest on/off ramp is 10 miles away.

[@victoryNOWfilmsandtv]

Hope not. Spectrum has been great where I am. Ugh.

[@BenDMitchell]

What about Mastodon?

[@Yayatrucker53]

I just got my bill from spectrum and it went up $9.25 for February

[@BenDMitchell]

How fast is your fiber connection?

[@haroldhechinger5850]

AT&T Does not have any legacy Landline / DSL in the State of New York.

[@benstandard]

I think in that state it's verizon that does.

[@haroldhechinger5850]

@@benstandard Yes. Verizon's Landline network is the former New York Tel from the very old days.

[@DannySpencer-h6g]

Loved the original Outer limits and love the James Bond movies ,now with Daniel Greig out of the picture, i do not know if i will continue to watch .

[@tlemon]

Please do information on Optimum. They've been cutting channels like Fox, NBC, Abc, CBS.

[@BenDMitchell]

Luke--are you or CCN on Bluesky?

[@cobeeble]

Oh dear baby Jesus no.

[@glynnetolar4423]

Because where he lives is all important and what everyone else has. NOT!

[@wateriver]

Here in my neck of the woods Spectrum is really the only Internet option. AT&T Internet speeds are capped at 6 Mbps. T-Mobile and Verizon offer home Internet service, not sure about AT&T. But their speeds very a lot. Anywhere from 25 Mbps to 150 Mbps. Too many people on the network. I’m not sure what this merger could mean for me. I guess if prices stay the same it should be fine.

[@websurfer5150]

The options aren't so real if you try to buy them. Several times over several years I have tried to buy fiber which is right out front. FIVE lines! More going in across the street. Won't sell it to residential. Call back and ask as a business OOO yes sir when do you want it? Of course, it's at a price a residential user won't pay. Star link would be cheaper.

[@rickgardner1269]

It sounds like Comcast is raising and lowering volume again didn't they get sued over this problem it sucks to have the remote in your hand so you don't wake your spouse

[@G.ook11]

Yes tnt

[@deannaguin8096]

As a former comcast employee , Merging the 2 would be the best thing they could do !!! Spectrum has always been a far less efficient and well run company than comcast , With that said they have always had a below the table agreement not to enter either's area of business .Which if you ask me would have already put spectrum out of business !!!

[@arnovan2010]

Actually, in Central Florida where I live, I have the choice of Spectrum or Comcast

[@spaceghost4474]

I had Comcast cable for almost 30 years and I really liked it. However I was forced to drop it due to the high price vs streaming. Even now with X-finity internet and KZbin tv, I get a substantial savings. If I was paying the same price with X-finity cable, I would still have it. I really liked the cable OS.

[@thistlemoon1]

And yet Spectrum is 1000x better than ATT which was my only other choice.

[@donp2827]

Story suggestion: I have Verizon Home 5G and, for the past two months, now have fixed IPv4 address AND IPv6! Speeds are now consistently 300mbps down and 20-30 up and no issues with KZbin TV. In Illinois, is this now nationwide?

[@rkmklz7562]

Dr No 1962.....Outer Limits 1959 to 1963...

[@only257]

great

[@timmywarren3693]

ESPN new app please

[@glynnetolar4423]

5G home Internet is so short sighted. Much like DSL was. It's limited in bandwidth and capacity.

[@dlewis9760]

As opposed to what alternative? DSL was in a lot of areas that didn't have cable. There was no choice. If given a choice, yeah, DSL was a joke. But back then, it was a step up from dialup.

[@sidewinder3434]

@@dlewis9760 I remember switching to DSL from dialup in NJ I was amazed on I can stream movies with no or very little buffering

[@glynnetolar4423]

As I saw it DSL was developed to allow the phone companies to use their 100 year old copper for 'high speed' data services. However that 100 year old copper often was in poor shape in any areas and phone companies only cared about selling services, not quality services. I speak from experience having either DSL or it's cousins. They are never really fast and often unstable. And the phone companies would just complain about how expensive fiber was. Seems to be they were just squeezing every dime out of their long standing copper investment instead. And now they are running away from it as fast as they can. That didn't last long. And coax, for all it's issues still raced past then and the phone companies just kept telling people either how far their service was (lying) or offering fiber (though only available in limited areas). So their marketing was often dishonest.

[@donp2827]

A Verizon Home 5G customer for about a year, the service only gets better. Now have consistent 300 down and 25 up and testing on local tower with VZ for band splicing with 500 mbps during some test periods. Now have fixed iPv4 and IPv6, stable and consistent. Of course, Comcast could offer free 5 gigabit for life and I still wouldn't take it.

[@ecwnikos]

TMNT on metv tunes hell yes cant wait for that being i livve in new york too bad for at n t tmobile who knows.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Why not call it Spectromcast.

[@bradc6199]

Will soon be dumping Comcast for fiber. Comcast jacked up the price of Internet again.

[@glynnetolar4423]

Wish I could get fiber where I live. Only Comcast and AT&T 5G is available. And as a rule AT&T sucks more.

[@rkmklz7562]

Spectrum Cable is dying anyway...a friend got the xumo box from them it was horrible....it would not work...got the wrong stuff.. just went back to Internet 😮...far better

[@cosmostrek2001]

comcast may buy spectrum but they will not merge.

[@professorhmm]

Wireless 5G internet will drive both of them out of business... good riddance! 🤔

[@thomaslorenzo6060]

Verizon is next

[@supremerulah420]

Monopolies-r-US 😕

[@michaeltoye9666]

Can you say MONOPOLY boy's and girl's

[@brandonsmith1198]

I would get him a link as videos special videos would be cool. I really enjoy the morning cord cutting videos that you do every morning.

[@Kronos21782]

20 mb down where I live for DSL is 48.95.

[@detfan1984]

I think this guys just makes up stuff to get clicks. 🤦‍♂️ this would never be allowed to happen.

[@JohnnyReno71]

😂 yeah a lot of his stories always seem repetitive day after day. I want facts not rumors!!

[@glynnetolar4423]

It's mostly commentary and maybe some news. Takes his cues from the major media, I suspect.

[@peterpramshafer933]

So people who can't get metv toons with a tv antenna will have to pay $6.99 a month to watch. How is that fair when people who can't get metv toons with a tv antenna would have to pay extra to watch a channel that's free🤷

[@JimGEDDIS3000]

Why is 5G home internet being made to be out such a big deal when there seems to way to many cons then pros to have that type of service. I live in Michigan and I can only get Comcast or AT&T, neither provides fiber optic internet yet. I still am using DSL internet and I am trying to patiently await fiber optic internet to come to my area, that is if I am lucky enough to get it. Yes I can get 5G home internet but I refuse to sign up for that because if it's anything like my cellphone service through AT&T then it's a waste of time for me.

[@jrussellcase]

I have ATT Fiber, their fastest speed(1000) costs me $90 a month. If you can't afford that, perhaps you should stick to dial-up.

[@glynnetolar4423]

Hope you're no one's financial advisor.