Comcast, the largest provider of internet access in the United States, and regularly one of the worst companies ranked in terms of service, reliability and customer satisfaction, is in talks to buy Time Warner Cable, the third largest ISP in the US.
This deal would harm US residents by creating the largest cable monopoly in history. As history has shown, monopolies almost always provide worse service at higher prices than competitive companies for a myriad of reasons. In the case of cable companies, this monopoly stems from the fact that most consumers in the US have one, or two choices when it comes to their choice of ISP.
Google Fiber and others have shown that great service at reasonable prices is certainly possible given today's technologies if there is a willingness to provide it.