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Time Warner Cable operates in 29 states, but thanks to the old system of regional and municipal cable monopolies, Comcast and Time Warner Cable don’t compete anywhere. Power customer satisfaction survey, Time Warner Cable ranked last in all but one region among television service providers. I suspect few of them, if any, are Time Warner Cable customers. The sheer size of the deal, and the intense public interest in unfettered Internet access, have galvanized an array of opponents, from Senator Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, to the Consumers Union to the Writers Guild of America. Whether Comcast can become a force in New York now rests with regulators at the Justice Department, who are examining antitrust issues related to the Time Warner Cable deal, and at the Federal Communications Commission, which is looking at broader public policy issues. “The result is we’re not in New York or Los Angeles. “Cable is a relic of an antiquated model,” when municipalities doled out local monopolies to cable operators.

Roberts told me this week on a visit to Comcast’s current offices in Philadelphia. “The alternative was to sit around and let cable die a slow death,” Mr.