How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All

How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All

The imminent merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast heralds the start of a new era: one of even more expensive channel bundles, and even longer waits for service. It’s time to make like a rat and get the heck off this sinking ship of cable television. Here’s how you can keep watching your favorite shows without a cable box. It’s time to cut the cord.

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Comcast And Time Warner Cable Merged

Comcast And Time Warner Cable MergedComcast has agreed to take in Time Warner Cable in the latest corporate merger over in the U.S., where this agreement happens to be a friendly, stock-for-stock transaction. In this particular merger, Comcast will pick up every single bit of Time Warner Cable’s 284.9 million shares which amounts to roughly $45.2 billion where equity value is concerned, and each Time Warner Cable share will be exchanged for 2.875 shares of CMCSA, equal to Time Warner Cable shareholders who happen to own around 23% of Comcast’s common stock. This particular transaction is said to generate around $1.5 billion in operating efficiency, and it will also be tax free to Time Warner Cable shareholders. There is one major talking point about this particular transaction – it will hopefully manage to create a leading technology and innovation company, where it leverages on a national platform while offering ground-breaking products, creating operating efficiencies and economies of scale.

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    How Comcast Just Conquered America, in Two Simple GIFs

    How Comcast Just Conquered America, in Two Simple GIFs

    It’s a sad day for consumers as the rumored merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is moving forward. What does it look like when the two biggest cable companies in the country jump into the sack together? The map above gives you an idea. It ain’t pretty.

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    Can The Government Stop The Comcast/TWC Monstrosity? ​

    Can The Government Stop The Comcast/TWC Monstrosity? ​

    The Anschluss of Comcast and Time Warner Cable is not over yet. We can still stop this thing! Well, the Department of Justice can still stop this thing. Clap if you believe antitrust laws still exist…

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    Why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Is Even Worse Than You Think

    Why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Is Even Worse Than You Think

    The mere mention of Comcast and Time Warner cuddling up to form one crummy super-conglomerate is enough to send you running for the pitchforks. But this unholy union—if it passes regulatory muster—goes deeper than MONOPOLY BAD.

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    How to Escape Comcast and Get Your Internet Elsewhere

    How to Escape Comcast and Get Your Internet Elsewhere

    Comcast has confirmed that it’s going to buy Time Warner Cable to form a huge, tangled monster of awfulness. Hooray! You want out? Lucky for you there are some alternatives to doing business with your monopolistic cable-internet master if you try hard enough. Here are your options, and good luck making your escape.

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    The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

    The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

    In case you missed it, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have officially confirmed their intentions to be come one gigantic conglomerate of suck. The internet, understandably, found this upsetting! Here are the funniest, angriest tweets about your new favorite monopoly:

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    Comcast Confirms Its $45 Billion Merger with Time Warner Cable

    Comcast Confirms Its $45 Billion Merger with Time Warner Cable

    Following rumors last night, Comcast has announced that it is acquiring Time Warner Cable in a multibillion-dollar deal.

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    Comcast Is Buying Time Warner Cable to Make Big Cable Even Worse

    Comcast Is Buying Time Warner Cable to Make Big Cable Even Worse

    Time Warner Cable is getting swallowed by the only monster bigger than itself: Comcast. That means the biggest cable provider, Comcast, is buying the second biggest cable provider, Time Warner Cable, to form a ridiculously ginormous cable company that’ll deliver unsatisfying service under one iron fist. We should all hold each other as big cable just gets bigger and badder.

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    Why the FCC Can’t Actually Save Net Neutrality

    Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality

    Network neutrality—the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks equally—is a principle that EFF strongly supports. However, the power to enforce equal treatment on the Internet can easily become the power to control the Internet in less beneficent ways. Some people have condemned last week’s court decision to reject the bulk of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order as a threat to Internet innovation and openness. Others hailed it as a victory against dangerous government regulation of the Internet. Paradoxically, there is a lot of truth to both of these claims.

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