article_snippet.sent: Ding-dong: Experts, including Columbia University professor Tim Wu, declared the Comcast-Time Warner Cable murder dead after the FCC expressed skepticism .
article_snippet.sent: Columbia University professor and net neutrality activist Tim Wu tweeted: 'Comcast merger is dead.'
article_snippet.sent: CNN's Brian Stelter reports that some inside the companies past the merger deadline were talking about the deal in the past tense almost immediately after the FCC decision.
article_snippet.sent: This is one of those deals where the opponents of Comcast merger have been one of the most vocal I can remember,' said S&P Capital IQ Tuna Amobi.
article_snippet.sent: Another charge is that Comcast hasn't stuck to conditions imposed on it when Comcast bought NBCUniversal.
article_snippet.sent: Pushback against Comcast merger has picked up in the last couple weeks.
article_snippet.sent: , along with five other Democratic senators and Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, this week urged the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice to block Comcast merger, saying Comcast merger would lead to higher prices and fewer choices.
article_snippet.sent: It's a dead end for Comcast,' said Rob McDowell, a former the FCC commissioner.
article_snippet.sent: There 'seems to be an antipathy towards Comcast at the FCC' because the FCC thinks Comcast didn't stick to the conditions of the NBCUniversal merger, McDowell said.