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Really? Does that apply to Wireless ISPs? (i.e., https://startyourownisp.com/ https://startyourownisp.com/)

• rayiner 8y ago
  It applies to any service that offers cable television, which in the US market is a basic part of the economics of the business. Americans still overwhelmingly expect to get television service bundled with broadband. I used to live in an apartment building with both cable and fiber. Nobody subscribed to the fiber because the fiber provided didn’t have a franchise to offer television service. It was nuts—I was the first person on a floor of almost a hundred apartments to get the fiber service. I found out because the ONT had been misconfigured when it was first installed years before. People just didn’t care—they wanted their cable package with ESPN. It’s why Google Fiber offers a television package—a broadband only service is not competitive in most US markets.