Judging by infrastructure problems plaguing everything, the direction of the world economy, the nature of technology being built according to global demand and the actual problems with Internet delivery C-Band should have a future equivalent to income tax; therefore remaining a viable option for paid programming. Our local ISP is hyping fibre optics so users can get to the bottlenecks even quicker. We have never experienced a problem on the paid connection to the telco office. Why should we, it is not cable-based so the line is not shared. When there is a problem it is far from our short, expensive segment. Speed tests are only of value to addresses we want to access. Getting to where we don't want to be has never been a problem so is not worth incurring any additional expense.
There are a few other aspects of land line subscriptions that don't appeal to me. We transfer enough money to the few remaining owners of the Internet, telephone, cable, entertainment, sports, online shopping corporations rolled into one for convenient billing. If I truly wanted to have my opinion given to me I could simply turn off the electronics and get lots of personally crafted directives for free. Satellite technology lets us get what we want and are willing to subscribe to without having to pay anyone to determine if it is right for us and then deliver it.
There are a few other aspects of land line subscriptions that don't appeal to me. We transfer enough money to the few remaining owners of the Internet, telephone, cable, entertainment, sports, online shopping corporations rolled into one for convenient billing. If I truly wanted to have my opinion given to me I could simply turn off the electronics and get lots of personally crafted directives for free. Satellite technology lets us get what we want and are willing to subscribe to without having to pay anyone to determine if it is right for us and then deliver it.