To play devil's advocate, is AT&T really being hypocritical? Alone, they didn't have the ability to bring cable TV to Americans. And without AT&T, DirecTV's internet options were laughable, or non existent. Satellite internet is currently terrible; expensive, slow speeds and poor connectivity. So technically merging these two just added a new cable, internet, phone company onto the market. And isn't that exactly what AT&T is arguing for?

Though, what should really happen is all the cable/internet services in the country right now be allowed to offer their services countrywide, not in their own regional monopolies. I was actually a little excited about this merger, until I realized that UVerse is not available in my area, and if Time Warner merges with Charter, I'm stuck using their terrible, expensive, throttled service.