DISH, in FCC Filing, Argues Proposed Charter/Time Warner Cable Merger Not in Public Interest

DISH Network Corporation

today filed a reply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) countering arguments made by Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter), Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) and Bright House Networks (BHN) defending the proposed merger between the companies. In the reply, DISH outlines how the applicants have failed to prove that this proposed merger is in the public interest and reiterates its call for the FCC to deny the merger. "If the proposed merger is approved, 90 percent of the nation's high speed broadband homes would be controlled by two companies, and the combined ‘New Charter' would have every incentive to sabotage OTT services like Sling TV that compete with the old school cable bundle,"