This Is The United States Of Comcast, Depressing Map Shows

[onehandle]

Forget the United States of America: This is the United States of Comcast. Comcast's $45 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable is going to give it an enormous share of the nation's market for Internet service, if maps produced by the blog WebpageFX are any guide. The map, based on an analysis of web traffic, shows the top Internet service provider in each U.S. state.

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Though 12 different service providers are represented on the map, Comcast is the top ISP in a whopping 18 states. Tied for 2nd with Cox is Time Warner Cable, both of which are the top ISP in 8 states.

This is one of the big reasons why the pending deal has people so worried. Among the concerns are higher prices and even less helpful customer service, if that could be possible, as both companies are regular contenders -- and sometimes even winners -- of Consumerist's annual "Most Hated Company In America" poll.

Here's how the map would change if the merger were to go through.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/cable-company-map_n_4892435.html

[jsr]

1. Recommend

[adirondacker]

2. It's been 8 years since I contributed to any of their nonsense. No regrets. nt

[woo me with science]

3. And this administration enables more corporate takeover of the internet.

They are most aggressively doing nothing, except ensuring that the ongoing consolidation of corporate control of the internet is not interrupted.

The Obama administration could direct the FCC to reclassify broadband right now, but they refuse. They are heavily funded by these corporate vultures, and they have no intention of interrupting that gravy train. Look at the opportunities they had this week, and how they responded. They declined to use the FCC to reclassify broadband. They declined to appeal the court ruling throwing out net neutrality rules. They flatly refuse to act on *any* of the things that they could do immediately to stop this consolidation of corporate power and defend net neutrality. Instead, we get vague, election year promises that they won't let anything bad happen from this increased corporate control that they are deliberately allowing to happen. They promise to rewrite the rules....sometime down the road.

It's an election year. The fact that they are kicking this can down the road when they could do some concrete things immediately and when doing something immediately would be immensely popular with the voters, shows clearly that their intentions are elsewhere.

That, and this administration's extensive history of pretty election year rhetoric versus actual action on behalf of corporate donors.

FCC won't appeal court ruling throwing out "net neutrality" rules
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024527150

White House says it won't direct FCC to reclassify broadband
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57619081-94/white-house-says-it-wont-direct-fcc-to-reclassify-broadband/

Revolving Door: Top Obama Admin Antitrust Officials Tied To Comcast
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10024497324

Comcast, Time Warner execs have been big Obama/Dem supporters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024494813

Would Teddy Roosevelt have stood by while Comcast bought the internet?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024494701

110 years ago our president used the Sherman Act to DISMANTLE the trust that controlled RR lines...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4494306

Let's see.....Net neutrality is killed off. Then two largest cable/Intrnet companies merge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024495645

US Plummets In Press Freedom Rankings
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024487392
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024488178

[Enthusiast]

6. +1 a whole bunch!

[woo me with science]

4. kick

[Enthusiast]

5. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch.....nt

[Adrahil]

7. yeah... pretty much our only option here. :( NT

[1awake]

8. I live in FL and Comcast doesn't exist here. nt

[onehandle]

9. Uh...

http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/shop/Products/local/florida.cspx

[1awake]

11. it's not here... you can call comcast for service,

but you will be rerouted to Brighthouse. Maybe its in other FL areas.

[marmar]

10. k/r