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Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates (bgr.com)
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from BGR about the rapidly shifting roles of cable companies and streaming media providers: While cable providers over the past few decades have grown fat off of exorbitant cable packages that overcharge and under-deliver, the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video are finally righting the ship and shifting the balance of power towards the consumer. Clearly, the cable industry is in the midst of a transition. Netflix in particular, with its ever-growing stable of original content, has proven to be a particularly painful thorn in the side of cable providers who are increasingly struggling to keep subscribers from cutting the cord. Now comes word via The Wall Street Journal that cord cutting isn't just on the rise, but is accelerating rapidly. Citing data recently compiled by eMarketer, the Journal relays that the number of households with cable 'will fall at an accelerating rate for at least the next four years, reaching a 1.4% decline in 2019, eMarketer estimates.'
Here in Los Angeles there is tons of choice for ISPs and television providers.
Maybe you should move out of the sticks and into a proper city/metropolitan area.
Why can't US cities have it too?
US cities can and do have it. Just not your city. Your city is dysfunctional. Your city is governed by business hostile leaders and citizens that have impeded the necessary build-out. Congratulations.
I haven't had difficulty getting broadband service since about 2001. Recently I began living in semi-rural area and I have business class Internet service in my home. So don't extrapolate the faults of your little misgoverned libtard utopia across the rest of the US. We haven't all governed ourselves into an Internet backwater as you have.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Seems to me you're the problem here.