After Charter and Time Warner Cable announced their intention to merge, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler released a statement noting that “an absence of harm is not sufficient” to approve a merger. But it should be. Why would the government block a merger it believes isn’t bad?
Scott Wallsten, TPI Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow has filed the previously released paper, “An Economic Analysis of the Proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger” with the Federal Communications Commission in response to their request for comments to inform the examination of the proposed merger.
