I think the reality of your example would follow the way cable companies offer their typical packages. This 'innovation' usually includes some base of certain c

I think the reality of your example would follow the way cable companies offer their typical packages. This 'innovation' usually includes some base of certain channels that you don't even want. Then you can pay up for more premium channels. Along the way, they will offer some 'discount' for a month or two and then raise your rate. Trying to request a downgrade usually takes a lot of your time to convince someone to actually put the order in. There are plenty of abuses available if you just search for cable company abuses. There is NO REASON for any of these companies to offer any true innovation or competition. While they're not strictly monopolists, they can pretty much guarantee little to no competition in their respective markets. And where they might receive competition from cities who want to build out their own broadband services, they lobby to have the laws changed making it illegal to do so. The only way around this is to offer some revolutionary new wireless network that sidestepped all of the fiber, cable, and telco providers. It would have to have massive bandwidth, buy-in from all kinds of hardware provides (mobile especially) and magically get approval for spectrum by the govt. ....Provided that said companies don't lobby against your effort. The FCC wasn't going to fix all this overnight (or possibly ever), but it was a step in the right direction for the citizenry of the country it was created to protect. Disrupting any of the cable/telco industry is a fantasy at this point.