Charter’s New Road Map

With its much-awaited purchase of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in the books, Charter Communications now embarks on what is expected to be a years-long journey to put the pieces of all three companies together.

The new Charter has a lot of challenges ahead, and expectations are high. “Unlike the Frontier acquisition that has had all sorts of service issues, which we would have been vulnerable to in the last deal, we’re a little more comfortable with acquiring all the assets of both of these companies, intact and operating,” said Charter CEO Tom Rutledge. “We’ve had sufficient time to map all the relationships between the companies and create clear, accountable authority throughout the organization. We are able to execute the existing business plan as of now.”