Comcast defends $45B Time Warner merger

Comcast is making the case for regulators to approve its proposed $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable.

In meetings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen and others from the company pushed back on critics’ claims that the merger would hurt competition, according to new filings at the agency.

Comcast repeated its commitment to the agency's largely defunct network neutrality rules -- a condition of Comcast's merger with NBCUniversal in 2011 -- and said the merger would not harm broadband competition.