roundtable: Re: Bell Atlantic - TCI

roundtable: Re: Bell Atlantic / TCI

Re: Bell Atlantic / TCI

James Love (love@essential.org)
Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:19:42 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 23:19:42 -0500 (EST)
From: James Love <love@essential.org>
Subject: Re: Bell Atlantic / TCI
To: "Samuel A. Simon" <ssimon@idi.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9402232200.A18435-0100000@idi.net>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.85.9402232342.B18706-0100000@essential>

On Wed, 23 Feb 1994, Samuel A. Simon wrote:
>
> If you haven't read about it, Bell Atlantic and TCI announced tonight 
> that their merger is being terminated.  They blame it on their inability 
> to price the deal in light of the current regulagtory environment, 
> especially the recent FCC action on the cable rates.  They say that they 
> will be continue to explore possible joint ventures.

   Well, that's the second time in recent memory that TCI has used the 
government's cable regulation to justify something that it was going to 
do anyway.  jamie


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