This would be bad news for all other cable nets and sat providers...they will be at Comcast's mercy for program fees.
They can't be any worse than Cox.
That's weird, we've had the exact opposite experience.
Since cable was first laid in our development and we hooked up, we've had at the least, 'excite@home', 'attbi', and now Comcast. Comcast has been the most reliable. For both Television and Internet, but especially Internet. With the others it was always going out and that was a given on a 3-day holiday weekend. When Comcast took over the constant Internet outages disappeared.
But what does suck about Comcast is the way they nickel and dime you to death on the TV rates. Every couple months its a $1.00 here, a $1.00 there. Pretty soon it's $10.00 more a month and you didn't even notice. My MIL in Chicago has Comcast and only for TV, no Internet. It's the same with her Cable bill.
I got fired from Comcast a few years ago. I was on the phone with a client and had to turn down the volume of a nearby TV. It had one of the “hip-hop gangsta” movies on Showtime where every third word was the f-bomb. Some black women complained (and they were hardly watching). I got fired as a result, and got called a racist mother effer by the area manager.
I refuse to do business with Comcast.