The article suggests that regulators will feel pressure to accept at least one major merger and reject at least one. Among them, a merger of #3+#4 wireless carr

The article suggests that regulators will feel pressure to accept at least one major merger and reject at least one. Among them, a merger of #3+#4 wireless carriers (Sprint+TMobile) to form a new #3 seems less pernicious than a merger of #1+#2 cable operators (Comcast+TimeWarner) to form a new super-#1. (The ~40mil combined customers is almost 10x bigger than runner-up Cox's ~4.5mil.) My fear is that regulators could find the reverse conclusion by focusing on metrics that don't really reflect the competitiveness in each market.