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Verizon buying Frontier. Charter buying Cox. So we're mostly down to AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and Charter. Verizon previously tried to merge with Charter back
by Animats 1y ago
Verizon buying Frontier. Charter buying Cox.
So we're mostly down to AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and Charter.
Verizon previously tried to merge with Charter back in 2017, but that didn't work out.[1]
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-is-exploring-combination-with-cable-firm-charter-communications-1485439901 https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-is-exploring-combinatio...
- walrus01 1y agoThere's also the big cable MSO that is the combined RCN, Wave, Grande (now being rebranded as Astound), also owned/run by some wall street finance types. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&channel=entpr&q=rcn+wave+grande https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&channel=ent... Then you've got things like Canada's Bell buying a controlling interest in Ziply, which acquired Frontier Northwest 4-5 years ago.
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- meerinor 1y agoAnd Lumen... but no, the list is longer, altice, windstream, wow, brightspeed, astound... the trend is definitely towards consolidation the past five years now, Nitel buys Hypercore, Comcast buys Nitel, Zayo and CCF, Comcast and and massergy, sprint wireline to tmo... etc.