Zero TV

[Snowreap]

cable companies have ample opportunity to grow from being primarily content resellers to being bandwidth providers.

I am a cable customer, not because I watch any TV, but because in my area cable Internet is fast, reasonably-priced and available. I consider their TV and phone service offerings to be "add-ons" to my basic bandwidth/connectivity package, in the same way that I consider Verizon fiber TV and phone service to be add-ons over their basic bandwidth/connectivity package.

in the case of Verizon, this treatment is particularly apt because whenever I finally decide to get fiber, it will be as an in-place upgrade from my existing copper DSL service from them. a big part of why I haven't done this already is because Verizon makes it difficult to get basic fiber bandwidth/connectivity without also getting TV and phone service at the same time (things I don't want).

-ken