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Taming the Cable Cowboy
A bid for Charter Communications isn't impossible, just extremely difficult.
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It looks impossible to an outsider. But if you were in Patrick Drahi's shoes, why wouldn't you try making a $184 billion bid for Charter Communications Inc.?
If the French telecommunications billionaire succeeded, he would take control of the second-biggest high-speed broadband provider in the world's most profitable telecoms market. The cost of failure? Not much more than ruining his bankers' August holiday.