And once it's available on any streaming media, it becomes available on the high seas for everyone who doesn't want 6 subscriptions paying more than what cable did/does.

I'm one of the lucky ones that has both spectrum and ATT as an option... Reality is though that only Spectrum is good... ATT wants the same money for 5x slower speeds.

I wish we had way more of them.

What I love is that the school districts in my county got so fed up with the big ISPs that they built their own data center, ran hundreds of miles of fiber, and managed to get Google, Level 3 and other major companies to peer inside their data center. They actually have enough peered bandwidth (without Comcast, Spectrum or ATT) that every district could have 50Gbs internet if they wanted.

Ohio tried to pass a law like that, the problem is that they tried to do it too late. Cities who already had it, and cities already in the planning/deployment phase shut it down hard.

I've gotten so fed up with ATTs bullshit that I've out right told their techs that if we lose internet I will call the cops, I do have their license plate, and they will pay for all the fiber repair costs.

So far we have yet to lose internet since, when they're out there. And according to the water company (right across the parking lot from us) ATT is by far the worst company when it comes to hitting shit underground too (or at least their contractors are).