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Charter Communications is stopping an upgrade option offered by its recently acquired Time Warner Cable business. According to a memo published by advocacy site Stop the Cap, Charter is telling its employees that it's suspending the Maxx upgrade program – which had been in effect since January 2014 – so that executives can …

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  1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    That didn't take long.

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    1. ecofeco Silver badge
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      Have you ever seen a merger that didn't result in higher prices and reduced service?

      Yeah, me neither.

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      1. Josh Cain
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        or an acquisition.

        You mean I get to pay more for a service that works a fraction as well as it used to? Thanks Frontier! Transporting your data via covered wagon....

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    2. Notas Badoff
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      Improvements? On you??

      When their first definitive action after the merger is to 'temporarily' stop improvements for customers while they 'review', they send a very definite signal to those customers. Profits should not be wasted on you.

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