“Comcast executive vice president David Cohen testified for the company, and his voice grew hoarse over time.
The strongest comments against the deal came from Allen P. Grunes, a former federal antitrust investigator and now a Washington, D.C., attorney. He said the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 says a deal would be anti-competitive if it “may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly.”
A merged Comcast and Time Warner Cable could thwart online video competition because of its large share of the residential broadband market, Grunes said. He also was concerned about Comcast/Time Warner Cable’s economic power in local cable-TV advertising markets and regional sports networks that could be used as leverage against pay-TV competitors.”
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