Just remember, it's too expensive to bury the powerlines so instead of saving and investing for that, they figured commercials, mail leaflets, donations, and funding political campaigns was better use of their customers' money. Gotta love legal monopolies. Spectrum is just as bad. The government needs to open the state up for competition. The roads are already shit I don't care if you need to tear them up to lay some cable if it's going to prevent outages. Wanna know how things get cheaper? You compete and use r&d to figure it out. It's not rocket science. Never had any issues with my neighborhood underground power. Nothing to fix. But the power pole a mile down the road? Gets fucked by a tree branch every wind storm. Same pole. Every storm.