... and one of the first things Charter (now Spectrum, with the addition of Time Warner Cable) did was raise rates across the board and cancel the MAXX upgrades

... and one of the first things Charter (now Spectrum, with the addition of Time Warner Cable) did was raise rates across the board and cancel the MAXX upgrades that Time Warner had been rolling out in a lot of areas... after spending months "convincing" regulators that the merger would not harm the consumer (lol). The telecommunication "market" in the US is so amazingly consumer hostile right now, getting worse and worse and it is looking increasingly like feint efforts like Google Fiber won't really do anything to change it outside of a few very small markets. But there's nothing the consumer can do in protest because there are no options.