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Industry: Time Warner :: Charter

Timeline

• 2016: Charter acquires Time Warner Cable
• 2015:
  • Comcast application to acquire Time Warner Cable is denied
  • Charter announces intent to acquire Time Warner Cable
• 2014:
  • Level 3 acquires TW Telecom
    • "TWT Parent, a publicly traded Delaware corporation, wholly owns tw telecom holdings inc. (TWTH), a Delaware corporation that is the direct or indirect parent of 35 TWT Subsidiaries currently providing interstate and international telecommunications services in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Applicants state that the TWT Subsidiaries provide business Ethernet, data networking, IP-based virtual private network, Internet access, voice, Voice over Internet Protocol, and network services to enterprise customers and carriers. They further state that the TWT Subsidiaries serve 76 U.S. metropolitan markets. One of the subsidiaries, tw telecom of hawaii l.p. (TWT Hawaii), has a joint interest in the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Network (HIFN), a non-common carrier submarine cable system connecting six of the Hawaiian Islands." [L3 / TWT MOO para 5 2014]
  • TWC Interconnection Dispute with Netflix
• 2013: Comcast announces intent to acquire Time Warner Cable
• 2009: Time Warner spins off Time Warner Cable as independent company
• 2008: Time Warner Telecom changes name to TW Telecom. TWT Press Release Mar. 12, 2008 [Exec Overview 4Q2011]
• 2006
  • TWC and Comcast acquired Adelphia. TWC acquires Adelphia's backbone.
  • TWT acquires Xspedius [Exec Overview 4Q2011]
• 2001:
  • Merger of AOL and TW
  • Time Warner Telecom acquires GST Communications [Exec Overview 4Q2011]
• 1999: Time Warner Telecom IPO $290M [Exec Overview 4Q2011]
• 1998: Time Warner Telecom splits from Time Warner Cable [Exec Overview 4Q2011]
• 1995: Launches Road Runner High Speed Online
• 1993 Time Warner formed (merger of Time's cable company American Television and Communications and Warner Cable (Warner Communications))

Time Warner Telecom

• tw telecom Executive Overview 4Q2011, Slideshare, slide 2 (national footprint interconnected with fiber and 10 Gig IP backbone)
• TWT Investor Presentation, November 2003, SEC

Interconnection

• Press Release, Joint Statement from Time Warner Cable and Cogent Communications Oct. 8, 2015 ("Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) have entered into a long-term, bilateral interconnection agreement for their public IP networks. This agreement allows the exchange of Internet traffic in a scalable and reliable manner to accommodate the growing use of the Internet.")
• Netflix Interconnection Dispute
• Michelle Clancy, Time Warner Cable inks paid interconnect deal with Netflix, RapidTV (Aug. 21, 2014)

Data Caps

• "Some ISPs, including MVPDs and wireless providers, have initiated bandwidth caps or usage-based price tiers, using a variety of business models....Exceptions include Time Warner Cable, which offers voluntary opt-in limits in exchange for a $5 discount on monthly charges across its Texas footprint." FCC Annual Video Competition Report 2013

Content Delivery Network

• Jamie Beach, Time Warner Cable: "With Our Pace of Growth, Running our own CDN made the most sense," Informa Telecom October 25, 2012,
• Time Warner Cable: CDNs will Need to Adapt, Content Delivery World  (Oct. 19, 2015),

Links

• Network Map: Navisite, a Time Warner Cable Company, About Navisite (visited October 21, 2015),

Notes

• TWC is strongly affiliated with BrightHouse Communications

News

• Time Warner Cable Raising Rates In New York After State Okays Merger With Charter, Consumerist Jan 18, 2016
• Michelle Clancy, Time Warner Cable inks paid interconnect deal with Netflix, RapidTV (Aug. 21, 2014)
• Comments of Robert D. Marcus, President, Chief Operating Officer, and Director, TWC, Time Warner Cable Management Discusses Q3 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript, (Oct. 31, 2013) (TWC CEO Robert Marcus proclaimed in 2013 that, “[W]e're going after DSL. We estimate there [are] still 4.5million DSL customers in our footprint, one-third of whom take video from us. Given the superiority of our broadband offerings to DSL, we find that inconceivable and unacceptable. It's an opportunity we must capitalize on.”)
• Rob Powell, Time Warner Cable Taps Level 3 to Expand Backbone, Telecom Ramblings (August 13, 2012)

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