[stomachmonkey]

Pricing all over the place.

Part of the problem is cost of infrastructure and the other part, the bigger part, is lack of competition.

In my community of 4,000 homes some of us have a choice of two providers, both of whom suck.

The other part has only one option.

TX prohibits municipalities from creating their own networks.

I actually looked into creating a co-op for us using wide area WIFI but I'd technically have to lease tower space on the border of the community because installing any infrastructure on community property would technically run afoul of the municipality prohibition. Might get away with putting AP's on peoples roofs but I'm not that motivated to deal with that.

The 3rd emerging option is 5G, TMobile is currently chasing that space and of course it comes with some of the limitations of cell based carriers but I expect to see a lot of improvement in the next 5 years that will become a legitimate threat to current cable based providers.