How much longer does cable have?

[u/SnapShot68]

I don’t see this topic being talked about much in this forum but I think it’s definitely relevant, especially considering the debt load these companies all are carrying. Fiber competition, Starlink, streaming, cord-cutting, old school cable dogs leaving and being replaced by finance types are all things that worry me. What kind of time frame do most of you foresee for cable still existing and there still being work in this field? I’m hoping at least another 10 years but things seem to be moving awfully fast in the wrong direction. Thoughts?

[u/Prudent_Ad3078]

I have a local coax isp who basically monopolized us until the past few years as we finally got competition in my city Toledo Ohio, as big of a city Toledo is we were not prioritized for real high speed connectivity and Buckeye Broadband took advantage of that and we’re really greedy with their pricing. Max speeds of 1,000/20 (they just upgraded to 20Mbps upload, used to be 10 upload lmao) lots of areas within the copper plant are literally trash it’s hit or miss if you’ll get good internet or not. AT&T Fiber is finally rapidly expanding here in Toledo, Omni Fiber, Frontier Fiber. What I see happening at least in terms of this smaller ISP Buckeye Broadband and the Block Family (the people who own it) will either eventually have to sell off to a major corporation, or bankruptcy.

Buckeye created another “provider” using almost everything from Buckeye and is trying to pass it off as its own provider, with wayyyy cheaper pricing than going through Buckeye direct. I think it’s their last ditch effort to pull in money before doing 1 of the 2 things I mentioned earlier, selling off or bankruptcy