Even after the merger, the new Charter will remain smaller than Comcast is today, with 24 million total customers versus Comcast's 27 million. On revenue, Comcast brought in $17.9 billion in the latest quarter, compared with TWC's $5.8 billion and Charter's $2.4 billion. Charter and TWC could argue that their deal would allow them to become at least as large as Comcast and perhaps let them trim costs for customers by cutting down on redundancies within the three separate companies, said Jan Dawson, an analyst at Jackdaw Research.