I pray to God the cable companies fail. I will never ever understand how they were let to monopolize their grip on cities in towns here in Assachusetts. I don’t know if it’s like that in other states but I think it is.
If it wasn’t for my son and wife I would have cancelled my tv service YEARS ago.
As The Misfits once said, Die, Die my Darling!
They were allowed to have a monopoly because in order to provide the service, 30 years ago, they had to acquire millions of miles of rights-of-way and install the cable lines, the wires. It was a huge investment that made sense AT THE TIME. But they long ago recouped their huge investments and now have bought off the government entities that are prolonging their monopoly and encouraging them to continuously raise their rates so that the government’s tax/fees can go up, too. The reason this will end is that the technology has overtaken their land lines. Where I live, you can get cable from the cable company, or from the phone company (or from Direct TV). Competition will out. I recently negotiated a $35 cut in what I pay them.