This is such a broken market. This sort of money should normally be going into re-investing in domestic infrastructure, continuing to offer improved services an

This is such a broken market. This sort of money should normally be going into re-investing in domestic infrastructure, continuing to offer improved services and customer support to customers, and so on. Instead, because there's no real competition in the ISP market, these companies use their coffers to get into new markets and spread themselves thin, while ignoring their core markets because they have those customers locked-in so there's "no need" for any significant improvements for the core service. If there was high competition in the ISP market, these sort of acquisition wouldn't happen very often, because the ISPs would have to be very vigilant about other companies stealing their market share and doing everything in their power to keep their existing customers happy and give strong incentives to new customers to come on board.