There is only high speed internet, other than satellite, in very limited areas, like hardly anywhere around here. Satellite won't work for video so there are millions and millions of customers who's only choices for video are Dish or DirecTV. Period.
My prediction is via the cell phone companies. They have the cell towers and are converting 3G to 4G. My aunt in very northern Maine has LTE data speeds. 4G is supposed to be 3 to 6 Mbps. WiMax (IEEE 802.16) can have up to 70 Mbps for a distance of 30 miles. It won't take much, in a few years, for true high speed Internet access to be available to everyone. How much will it cost? It won't be cheap. But then again, neither is putting a satellite in orbit.
Just look at home wireless networks. Less than 15 years ago, we were happy with 802.11b at 11 Mbps. In 2002/2003, we got 54 Mbps speeds with 802.11g. Then in 2009, 802.11n gave us up to 600 Mbps. Now in 2014/2015, 802.11ac is supposed to give us 1 Gbps speeds. Essentially, that is a 9000% increase in speed in 15 years.
Cell phones are similar. Analog 1G was 28 to 56 kbps. Digital 2G (1991) was not much faster. Current 3G (2001) is 1.5 Mbps. As I said, 4G (2012) is up to 6 Mbps. Will we need to wait until 2020 for 5G? Will it be faster than 24 Mbps? Will it need to be?
Satellite TV will not be obsolete tomorrow or next year, but it will have serious competition before 2020. To stay in business, Dish and DirectTV need to begin to position themselves to compete.