The American Cable Association has sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding a probe into alleged antitrust violations committed by Comcast, Fox Business reported on Monday.
In the letter the ACA, which is a lobbying group for midsize cable operators, the organization cited the “substantial competitive harm” the merger already has provided consumers.
The DOJ is already appealing the AT&T-Time Warner deal over concerns the merger will harm competition. Both AT&T-Time Warner and Comcast-NBCU are vertical mergers, meaning the deals marry a content producer with a content distributor.
ACA contends Comcast's cable distribution, combined with NBC’s content, make it an even more sever anti-competitive threat than AT&T-Time Warner and that Comcast already has violated antitrust laws repeatedly.
President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday about ACA’s concerns.
"American Cable Association has big problems with Comcast," Trump wrote. "They say that Comcast routinely violates Antitrust Laws. These guys are acting much worse, and have much more potential for damage to consumers, than anything AT&T-Time Warner would do.”
The guidelines governing the approval of the Comcast-NBCU merger in 2011 expired in September, and there has been concern that violations will become even more common, according to Fox.
The DOJ notified Comcast in August that the it would be monitoring the company’s behavior once the guidelines expired, and government sources say that in addition the ACA antitrust inquiry is being considered.
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