The Department of Justice has been concerned about potential lessening of competition if Verizon, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks were allowed to fully sell each other's services.
With the caveat that many of the areas of overlap, shown in this map in purpose, are areas of high population density, the potential danger was largely concentrated in Verizon's fixed network footprint in the U.S. Northeast, with the addition of some areas of Southern California and the Tampa, Fla. area.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Areas of Potential Verizon, Cable Company "Lessened Competition" are Few, Really
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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