FCC chairman Tom Wheeler just gave a tough speech about the state of broadband competition in the United States and it seems to bode very poorly for Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Per The Washington Post, Wheeler ripped into what he said were broadband “duopolies” in many markets while noting that “meaningful competition for high-speed wired broadband is lacking.” RELATED: Think Comcast’s customer service is bad now? Just wait until it merges with TWC In his speech, Wheeler noted that although a majority of Americans do have a choice of two or more providers when it comes to services that deliver download speeds of 4Mbps or higher, this percentage shrinks drastically as speeds increase. And given that many of
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