Seeing is believing, and it's unlikely you'll believe just how big the $45 Billion Comcast and Time Warner Cable acquisition is until you see how it transforms their U.S. cable business coverage.
In this map, provided to Mashable by Esri and filled with cable boundary data from GeoResults, the combined company becomes a true East Coast and Midwest cable powerhouse and a real growing presence in large states like Texas and California.
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According to GeoResults, Comcast has a total of 11,598,085 businesses and 45,970,032 residential households in their current "Cable MSO Boundary" coverage areas, while Time Warner Cable has 6,249,175 businesses and 25,780,460 residential households in their current Cable MSO Boundary coverage areas. Grand total? 70 million households.
With this kind of dominance in almost one-third of the country, one has to ask how the FCC will view the cable competitive landscape in those regions. Does a view like this make it harder or easier for federal regulators to O.K. the combined company?

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