Time Warner Cable being bought by Charter.

[Jeremie Boop]

Charter Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $55 Billion

I know a lot of people complain about TWC, but I've had to work with Charter before and I can tell you they were no better or worse from my experiences with them. I wish Verizon FIOS or CenturyLink Fiber service would hurry up and make it to my area. I can deal with Time Warner, I can't deal with Charter.

[jamo]

Sounds like this is going to turn out excellent, as these things always do!

[disco111]

I gave up cable long ago. The only channel I miss is the golf channel and that's only on Thursday's and Friday's, when a big tournament is on. As for other viewing, I went the Hulu route for $20 bucks a month, since we already had internet access and can watch a variety of cable TV shows that way. Now if ESPN (watched the Masters that way) televises some golf, that's another plus. I'm just waiting for the underground geek ninja's to find a way to get all this stuff for free. I use an antenna now also, for local channels and get great reception and also for free. I just find it ludicrous, to pay for something that I still have to watch commercials. The cable folks are getting it from both ends, but not anymore from me.

[iacas]

TWC is the best and only reasonable option available to me for high-speed Internet at my house.

A local company VelocityNet is still doing modems, but supposedly is championing fiber to the home, so we'll see…

[Shindig]

Like Erik, I have pretty much only TWC as a choice for internet at my place. Verizon has something in the area, but it's only marginally faster than the speed I got from AOL back at the tail end of last century (I'm exaggerating, but only slightly). I'm excited by the moves Google is doing for bringing quality internet to people.

[Jeremie Boop]

TWC is the best and only reasonable option available to me for high-speed Internet at my house.

This is exactly the same situation I am in.

[saevel25]

Same here. I don't have cable TV, but for internet Time Warner is the best in the area.

For wired options I got AT&T;, Platinum Equity LLC (????), Cincinnati Bell (DSL)

I might look into AT&T; if things go south.

[dennyjones]

I have Charter.  We have excellent service.   I get about 60 MBps.