Anti-Charter/TWC Complaints Flood FCC

The Federal Communications Commission's Charter/Time Warner Cable merger review docket has been flooded with filings asking it to block the merger in no uncertain terms. The merger docket is by far the most active, with over 40,761 comments filed in the last 30 days (the special access proceeding is second at 3,688). "Stop Charter before it hikes prices, broadens the digital divide and forms a cartel with Comcast to kill consumer choice and competition," said one apparently angry citizen. "Stop Charter before it hikes prices, broadens the digital divide and forms a cartel with Comcast to kill consumer choice and competition," said another, and another, and another, and another.