in a statement filed with the fcc tuesday comcast points to increase broadband competition from verizon fioshose high speed internet reaches 14% of homes in the united states. the company also mentioned googles new fiber service, which could internet eight markets currently served by comcast or time warn cable. but the high cost of infrastructure means cable will likely still reign supreme in american households. mary snow, al jazeera. >> today on al jazeera and facebook i've been asking you is the potential 45 million-dollar merger anti-competitive? that might have been a leading question because i got the response that i thought i would get. tell me what you think about tweeting me at ali velshi or leave me a comment on facebook. edward wyatt was at the comcast time warner merging hearings today. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> most americans grew up having one place to get your cable from. couldn't be anything less competitive than that. >> right, local cities, municipalities granted the monopoly right in exchange for fees from that company and they would be the only one in that mark

just examples, product like verizon fios and google fiber. are changing the internet's infrastructure by delivering faster access through fiber optic cables. and on the content site companies like netflix and hulu are allowing people to cut the cord. and access their media through internet and their handheld devices. comcast and time warner control a significant amount of cable infrastructure that americans use to access high speed internet. they control the cable lines that go directly into the people's homes. so there's a lot of interest in what will happen if the two companies merge and quite frankly, probably just stated a little bit different but i have the same interests that chairman leahy has expressed. consumers want to know whether a combined comcast-time warner will be in a better position to expand high speed internet access. will consumers have higher cable bills? will they have more or less content choices? will the merger inhibit growth and deployment of broad band services. will it enhance competition with other companies? and

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just examples, product like verizon fios and google fiber. are changing the internet's infrastructure by delivering faster access through fiber optic cables. and on the content site companies like netflix and hulu are allowing people to cut the cord. and access their media through internet and their handheld devices. comcast and time warner control a significant amount of cable infrastructure that americans use to access high speed internet. they control the cable lines that go directly into the people's homes. so there's a lot of interest in what will happen if the two companies merge and quite frankly, probably just stated a little bit different but i have the same interests that chairman leahy has expressed. consumers want to know whether a combined comcast-time warner will be in a better position to expand high speed internet access. will consumers have higher cable bills? will they have more or less content choices? will the merger inhibit growth and deployment of broad band services. will it enhance competition with other companies? and

at the same time, the number of options for video distribution has continued to increase, as verizon's fios and at&t's u-verse networks have expanded their customer base. as others have emerged as important video platforms. this industry is not structured in a way that would make anti-competitive harm in the markets for video programming likely. any residual concerns may be addressed by the extensive program rules that the fcc has developed to ensure that the entire industry has sufficient access to video content and distribution. the regulatory agencies have repeatedly recognized that such problems are better handled through general rules applicable to all industry players than through conditions that bind only merging parties. turning to the market for broadband internet access, the lack of any overlap in the areas served by comcast and time warner cable again makes it unlikely that the merger would affect the prices that subscribers pay. in addition, the structure of the market for broadband access makes harm less likely than the market for cable television. by my count, it was 32% of th

> comcast's point has been there are so many other things they're competing with, whether it's verizon, fios, google. >> apple, amazon. the future is wide open. you know, whether -- i haven't seen anything in the digital world that costs more now than it did 10, 15, 20 years ago. you let the market work and consumers will, you know -- >> benefit as a result. >> eventually. we'll see. >> it is a big week. we have a ton of earnings starting today. a busy earnings season. we have annual meetings coming up. coca-cola will be holding its annual meeting tomorrow. ahead of that activist shareholder, david winters has been reaching out to coke's largest shareholder, warren buffett. he sent him a second letter urging buffett and berkshire hathaway to oppose the equities plan. he says that this is a situation where he really wants warren buffett to stand up and take his side on this. >> no way. this is a guy like 100 shares. >> david winters is a long-term investor. >> he has no money in it. he has $90 million in it. >> he's been a long-time investor. >> it's like 100 shares compared to what buffett h

netflix going to pay more money to verizon to guarantee faster access of fios broadband network. terms were not disclosed. even though the ceo has called the comcast dna or for -- unfair toll on internet companies. nowur lead story of the day , all about the users for twitter as it reports earnings for the second time today. under rusher to get users to be more active. user engagement has declined and inactive accounts and accounts with little or no followers are becoming a bigger issue. joins me in studio. it engagement numbers last quarter were surprising. >> i think the user growth numbers, certain numbers have not been as bad as terms as revenue per user. fundamentally you want to see if there is a way to revolutionize the business. we saw an amazing trek after that facebook i feel. growth rates were slowing down. we also saw that with groupon. we saw that was social media companies that came out with user numbers that were called clicks. what we saw with facebook as a reacceleration because they figured out mobile. out? ander to get that can they get it through better mobile

netflix agreeing to pay verizon for better access to the fios broadband network after striking a similar no word on the financial terms. netflix trying to make its programming as easy to access and watch as hbo. news from the files of "bloomberg west." of the came out depression. world war ii, korea, the optimism of the 1950's and early 1960's. america and new york city was ascendant. is concerned we have so much to do and quite possibly we will do it without paulikes of fdr, ike, and volcker as well. former lieutenant governor of the state of new york joins us. dds so much to the history of this great city. paul volcker, i see him walking around manhattan, vibrant. where are the future paul volckers? are they out there? >> i hope so. very few by definition people who can fill those shoes because it is an unusual combination of brilliance, integrity, and a family deep commitment to the public well-being. >> but many of those people are choosing not to do what you do -- you did, which is public service, because you are a piÑata in the media today. dashwood paul volcker now the wood he did

household, i get cable, satellite, verizon, amazon, as well as netflix. >> cable, satellite, files. -- fiosave a lot of time. in general, consumption is going -- is going up. to watch the programming where you want to watch it. i cannot find "house of cards" anywhere else so i have netflix. game of thrones, hbo. he gives me the option to watch the programs i want. thrones? watch game of >> i love it. >> thank you so much. of media morph talking to us about amazon and the big announcement tomorrow. >> it is crazy everyone is so public that they love it. it is a show for people who love twisted plot, violence, and naughty stuff. >> what is wrong with that? >> coming up, nothing says letting like a majorly a small stadium. we will show you what it costs --repose at at the ballpark to propose that the ballpark. ♪ >> welcome back. it is finally starting to feel a little like spring. baseball season is officially underway and love is in the air. for those of you who cannot have one without the other, scarlet fu has a great off the charts today. give it to us. class if you feel the need to propose

verizon helps, doesn't it? just a juggernaut right now. >> fios obviously.near nationwide. >> i say like, i totally get -- >> and google. >> david cohen's argument. i get it because i find that i can get the services a lot of different ways over the top, i can get it on my phone. >> whoa. >> right now -- >> where you can get your broadband services in your various homes, who can you get your broadband services from? >> time warner, fios and. >> right now -- >> cable vision. >> in the markets -- >> within each of your different home markets who can you go to as a competitive threat to the current broadband provider? >> no. there isn't any. that's a quiz. >> thank you very much. >> who's bright? it's -- >> that's the point. >> to keep an eye on google and apple, rico with the story they both have considered making acquisition offers for square, the mobile payment company run by twitter co-founder jack dorsey, kayla tausche doing a good job reporting about the new revolving credit line they've gotten, rumors about them headed towards the private markets that's