This might be bad for Xfinity. A lot of their customers may leave them for a variety of readily available competitors created by the dynamic free market economy.
The main competitor in most cases, after the cable company and the telephone company, is LTE. Also faster and cheaper than Starlink in a suburban area, but in dense areas the speeds really suffer. I was on LTE home internet for a good while and enjoyed 100+ Mbps at night but only 20 during the day, due to living too close to downtown. Only $45/mo though!
Competing with this using satellite or 5G Cellular is going to be difficult, both need more spectrum and an order of magnitude more hardware (cell towers or satellites) to reach those kinds of speeds.
"Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/comcast-does-so-...
1- Nobody else gets permits to lay cables in that area. Governments can't even share the data about cable locations/network detail. You can ask, as a property owner if it is around a specific location and they will say yes or no.
2-The agreements also prohibit local governments from laying out public cables, like roads.
3-Xfinity won't share that network with anybody else.
Customers are stuck whatever Comcast deoes. These breaches have no meanining other than getting a check for $5-100 when they settle the lawsuit claims.
Just about anyone in the US knows what this means, you Comcast Bill will go up at least 10% as soon as the Fed Gov stop watching them for this breach.
Makes opportunities for 5G and other wireless providers to get some customers. It would be even better if this encouraged the wireless providers to provide better service.
The only Telcom ever to have literally told me "you're just lucky you have a dial tone".
If you're one of those people stuck in perpetual 00's time how you think of the 70's is how the 90's are now.
We need to come up with a new plan for human authentication, that isn't straight from a dystopian landscape.