>Cable companies do not compete. They serve non-overlapping areas. Not true. In my area there are two cable companies that cover the whole city. >FiOS has a

>Cable companies do not compete. They serve non-overlapping areas. Not true. In my area there are two cable companies that cover the whole city. >FiOS has a very small footprint. 15 million households isn't a small footprint. >DSL can barely be considered adequate anymore, and doesn't even meet the FCC's definition of broadband. Adequate for what? DSL is fine for streaming video. >Wireless broadband has very low data caps, and high latency. That's temporary. They're still building out the 4G networks. When they're done they'll have to increase caps substantially to compete. And 4G has very low latency. >Satellite internet (it can't even be considered broadband) has even lower data caps, and even higher latency. Granted, satellite wouldn't be my first choice.