If Charter Communications' proposed $55 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable goes through, the combined company would have a large presence in Nebraska.
Time Warner has more than 100,000 subscribers in Lincoln and southeast Nebraska, while Charter serves customers in 68 communities in the state stretching from Beatrice to Scottsbluff, including Grand Island, Kearney and Hastings.
Charter has not disclosed its customer numbers in Nebraska, but it's likely well into the tens of thousands.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission does not regulate either cable TV service or broadband Internet service, said Shana Knutson, the commission's legal counsel. It does regulate phone service, but both companies have many fewer phone customers than they do cable and Internet customers.
Knutson said the Federal Communications Commission, as part of its review of the deal, will look at how individual states are affected.