“The problem is that I don’t see that happening. What will happen is ISP’s like Comcast will have a myriad of ever cost increasing tiers and packages resulting in the Ultra-Ulta-Mega-Super Premium package that will cost $500 a month if you really don’t want Comcast to limit what you can watch.”
Of course that could occur.
Then another business steps in and drops it to $100.
There IS a market when there is money to be made.
Not if the only high speed internet provider in my area is Comcast and local governments award who gets that franchise. Sure Comcast came in and invested the infrastructure and I don’t disagree that they own it and should be compensated. But in most municipalities another cable company can’t just come in and lay cable and offer their services at a more competitive price. What other business is going to come in and drop it to $100 if Comcast has not only the monopoly of providing the connection, but increasingly a monopoly on the content as well?