Have to say Dish (and likely DirecTV) as a satellite is FAR more reliable than either the Cable TV or Internet services. When storms pass though, we might lose our sat signal for a few minutes, but then it all comes back, but the Cable co here has trucks out trying to locate and fix the downed TV and internet. I have neighbors who go through loss of TV for several hours, even a day or more. While our internet is VERY reliable--from the cable co--it can have several minor outages and a few longer delays. All in all, not so bad, but FAR WORSE than my steady solid as a rock sat signal.
Also, let's consider that the internet slows down either to lack of edge router capacity or even the backbone itself, and no one want to pay for increasing the more than ever over burdened capacity of the backbone, which has to deal with high inefficiencies such as too many people streaming the same new hit movie, not in accordance with what is supposed to be the agreed industry practice of efficient use of the backbone by having such high traffic content cached at the ISP, but Hollywood, of course, doesn't like that. I still get buffering more than a few times on my 50 Mbps downstream, while my sat service has far, far, fewer hiccups.
And let us not forget that as cable co's become almost all about being an ISP, the current rates for ISP services will INCREASE to reflect our growing dependency on it, all while crowing that they give you 100Mbps speeds that are truly USELESS for home, but with no options for slower speeds at lower prices (some people only need only 5-15Mpbs, not 50-100Mbps).
Yeah, the future of the internet looks good--to the ISP's. In other words, they get us coming and going, as usual.