Dish Network is urging the FCC to reject the Comcast-Time Warner deal

In a memo from Dish Network’s Senior Vice President and Deputy General Council Jeffrey Blum to the Federal Communications Commission, a series of meetings on July 7 indicate that the company has raised issue with the prospective merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Believing that the combined business could utilize “choke points,” it could leverage control over broadband to do harm. “The pending Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger presents serious competitive concerns for the broadband and video marketplaces and therefore should be denied,” said Blum. “There do not appear to be any conditions that would remedy the harms that would result from the merger.”.