New York, April 24, 2015 -- Moody's believes that Comcast Corporation's (A3, positive outlook) decision to walk away from its planned acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Inc. (Baa2, negative outlook) due to extreme regulatory pressure has negative credit implications, but mostly due to the lost opportunities that the deal could have provided Comcast. Also, the significant regulatory pressure, despite adoption on Title II regulation earlier this year, raises an important question as to whether Comcast will be able to make any further acquisitions of horizontal expansionary network infrastructure (more cable systems or a wireless company) or content in the future.

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