Trying to connect to the Internet in the USA is just the beginning of you pay more for less. As these large companies & banking institutions consume each other, evolving into giant monopolies that control the law through government lobby. They effect change from within, making competition simply impossible to compete in the US market place unless it is controlled by them in one form or another.
Looking ahead, it doesn't get any brighter because they now control, view, listen to, analyze, and store all the data emitted from every source. Including sources that until a few years ago were considered imposable such as any movement outside from satellite monitoring, drones, street cameras, your home computer, your car, your home appliances, your neighbors, your doctor, your taxes, all purchases, dental records, your school, the police, the courts. Who would have thought that these large companies would have complete legal access to all these areas to invade our lives?
So, now since these mega companies control all information, the law, and they are strictly financially driven. The devolution begins to roll rather quickly gathering more and more momentum as their legal and monetary growth flourishes. They grow financially from inside the very heart of the government itself. The offloading of costs and expenses are easily downloaded through the government onto the tax payer, and only the cream profit is taken. Leaving in their wake anything that is deemed as unprofitable to be tossed back the puppet government to further rape the unlimited resource of tax money provided by the people.
We can expect the unthinkable to become more and more the norm because this takeover is so complete. So locked in. So unreversible. So immoral, that now the quick march to things like food control, air control, even life itself, and future generations going extinct is give over to these companies to extract as much cash as they legally can, and they will whealed their power mightily, unrelenting toward more profit regardless of the consequences. Paying head only to the laws that they control, and to profit that must be gained without any other considerations what so ever. They will consume everything unrelentingly drive by greed, having no moral, you can expect mass develution of everything you once thought was good.
Very dark indeed...