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This Article argues that what was sold as deregulation and competition in the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 instead paved the way for a cable duopoly dominated by Comcast and Time Warner.  Gary Wax contends that lax FCC oversight, strategic mergers, and regulatory loopholes allowed the companies to consolidate power, sideline smaller competitors, and drive up consumer prices while regulators looked the other way.  Framing the issue as both an antitrust problem and a policy failure, the piece connects merger approvals and non-enforcement to real-world consequences: limited consumer choice, rising rates, and a market structure that looks far more like monopoly than competition.

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