Dish continues to hammer on Charter-TWC-Bright House merger

The merger of Charter Communications with Time Warner Cable and Bright House networks will put too much Internet service provider marketshare in the hands of just two cable companies (Comcast would be the other one) and the deal should be rejected, according to Dish Network. The company made its claims in another filing to the Federal Communications Commission on the topic.

"The FCC should not allow an already concentrated market for high-speed broadband access to become even more so," Dish said. "The threats to competition and the public interest are clear. Dish urges the FCC to deny the transaction as it is currently presented." While Charter has faced only a fraction of the blowback Comcast endured while trying to buy TWC in 2014, Dish has kept up a steady assault on Charter's merger proposals. In its latest letter, Dish noted that the Department of Justice, in rejecting the Comcast-TWC merger, already signaled its aversion to a high-concentration of high-speed Internet service market share. "The Department of Justice has done so for precisely the issue that Dish has raised -- the fact that such market concentration between two firms would allow for coordinated action even without active collusion between the players," Dish said. Dish also issued another condemnation that is eerily similar to the criticisms of the scuttled Comcast-TWC deal -- the satellite operator said "New Charter" would drag down the market for online video distributors.