Charter’s CFO says cost synergies from Cox will exceed $1 billion

Charter’s CFO Jessica Fischer is leaving the company on October 15 to become the founding CFO of a new Blackstone–Google joint venture called Crux AI, which will be focused on AI infrastructure. But still representing Charter, Fischer spoke at Citi's 2026 Global TMT Conference. She was asked about the cost synergies that Charter expects from its recent acquisitions of Cox Communications and Liberty Broadband. Previously, the company expected cost synergies from the Cox acquisition of about $800 million, but at Citi, Fischer said, “The confidence that we have in the synergies that will come from the transaction, I'd say, has increased dramatically as we've sort of dug in further. And so we've raised our synergy target to more than $1 billion.”