Wheeler told the CEOs that any deal would be assessed on its own merits, the newspaper cited people familiar with the matter. Wheeler saw some of the statements as a “significant over-reading” of the FCC staff’s stance on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal, the newspaper said. Comcast Corp abandoned its $45 billion offer for Time Warner Cable last month after U.S. regulators raised concerns that the deal would give Comcast an unfair advantage in the cable TV and Internet-based services market.