Comcast-TWC Demise Points to Online Video's Ascendency

“Comcast has demonstrated how its size can lead to bad outcomes for consumers,” said Joshua Stager, policy counsel of the Open Technology Institute, at New America. “Shortly after announcing the merger — precisely when the company should have been on its best behavior — Comcast allowed its own network to congest until Netflix agreed to pay an access charge. For months, many Comcast customers frequently saw their broadband connections fail entirely. Comcast's willingness to use its own customers as pawns in a business dispute was dangerous for the Internet and an abuse of market power.”