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                                                                   Exhibit 23.17

                        CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

The Board of Directors
Tele-Communications, Inc.:


     We consent to the inclusion in the registration statement on Form S-1, as
amended (Amendment No. 1) of Charter Communications, Inc. of our report dated
April 2, 1999, with respect to the combined balance sheets of Bresnan
Communications Group Systems (as defined in Note 1 to the combined financial
statements) as of December 31, 1997 and 1998, and the related combined
statements of operations and parents' investment and cash flows for each of the
years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1998 included herein and to
the reference to our firm under the heading "Experts" in the registration
statement.


                                       /s/ KPMG LLP

Denver, Colorado

September 2, 1999

