Oh, please. Cable is a dying breed. There are a ton of cord cutters out there. It is increasingly just becoming a bandwidth commodity for AppleTV, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon.
The tech is old, and will eventually be replaced by fiber, for which Google has the real first-movers advantage.
If you want to worry about monopolies, worry about Google and Apple. Worrying about the cable companies is like wringing your hands over “Ma Bell.”
But - don’t worry - the FCC will never allow the deal so Obama’s tech friends at Google and Apple can continue their march to domination.
what happens when immersive VR becomes mainstream?
lol. Yeah the cord cutters who are going to get screwed when they put a limit on how much data you can use a month and then they will be sorry. Currently they are talking 250 a month. That is not much especially as you stream movies. It will eventually cost more just for having cable.