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> Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal This is a weird way to say this. "Only 30%" seems like kind of a large number even in this context. I
by dopamean 13y ago
> Only 30% of Americans Out of Comcast Reach After Deal
This is a weird way to say this. "Only 30%" seems like kind of a large number even in this context. I get the point but maybe it would have been more effective to say that 70% of Americans can now be reached by Comcast.
- jonnathanson 13y agoIt's also a little strange to talk about "reach," which is a hypothetical concept, and not actual market share. When the DoJ considers antitrust legislation against a putative monopolist, it usually looks at the market share of the entity in question. Comcast will exploit this to the hilt, of course. There are a lot of "technical" grounds on which Comcast is not a monopolist, and it will argue those grounds aggressively if investigated.
- revelation 13y agoIt's even weirder because the missing 30% are not out of reach because Comcast just didn't get to them yet, they are out of reach because Comcast doesn't actively enter into competition with other providers. They have silently split the market. So the numbers really don't mean anything.