Free Press, January 20, 2012

Verizon Wireless, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Bright House Networks announced that they would provide the FCC with copies of the companies' joint marketing agreements to resell each other’s services. The joint marketing arrangements will now be scrutinized as part of the FCC's proceeding examining Verizon's companion deals to buy sizable chunks of wireless broadband spectrum from these same cable companies. These anti-competitive pacts to divide up the broadband market were announced last month.

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