article_snippet.sent: Mega-merger: The $45.2billion deal would have merged Comcast's 30million customers with Time Warner Cable's 11million.
article_snippet.sent: The new company would have spun off or sold 3.9million customers .
article_snippet.sent: The proposed merger would have controlled 57percent of the broadband internet market and 30 percent of the paid TV market with more than 27million customers across the nation.
article_snippet.sent: and No. 2 U.S. cable companies would put nearly 30 percent of TV and about 55 percent of broadband subscribers under one roof.
article_snippet.sent: A combined Charter and Time Warner Cable would have 15 million video customers and 16.5 million Internet customers.
article_snippet.sent: That's still smaller than Comcast alone, which has 22.4 million video subscribers and 22 million Internet customers.
article_snippet.sent: Comcast wanted Time Warner Cable to bulk up on subscribers as Comcast deals with old rivals Dish, DirecTV and Verizon's FiOS, as well as newer, cheaper online competitors like Netflix.
highlights_snippet.sent: Merger would have given the new company control of 57percent of the broadband internet market and 30percent of the paid TV market .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Comcast has 30million subscribers and Time Warner Cable boasts 11million; new company would have spun off or sold 3.9million .
  