Well, yeah. I worked in cable TV distribution systems years ago. Family business, we owned or maintained a handful of CATV/MATV systems around the south bay. A

Well, yeah. I worked in cable TV distribution systems years ago. Family business, we owned or maintained a handful of CATV/MATV systems around the south bay. Anyway, TV was a big deal for a lot of people. People in mobile home parks who were barely scraping by would want expensive packages with ESPN and the like. Minor disruptions occasionally made people furious (as a smaller system, equipment replacement usually meant that a channel had to be off for a few minutes, and the downtime got worse as satellite equipment got "better"). Even now, go to an apartment complex and see how many small dishes you see. It's been like this for a long, long time and Comcast and Time Warner and a few others have converted their considerable wealth into political influence to make sure that they have a locked in and minimally competitive market for a long time to come. For those that aren't so interested in TV (like me), "high speed" internet access has become a staple. Google is the only real newsworthy disruption of the big ISPs in recent history. If Musk does get a low-orbit satellite network going, that might change the game a bit. Otherwise, we're all just stuck with this situation for the foreseeable future.