Digital cable and high-speed internet are ridiculously inefficient economic systems.

My hope is that it will go the way of the telephone. A while ago (when Ma Bell had a monopoly on US telephone service), you had to rent your phone from the telco. They were all the same phone. Nowadays we can buy our own phones so that we can choose which ones we want.

I should be able to choose my own set-top box, cable modem, etc. and I should be able to own it. "Customer premises equipment" is a stupid idea. The demarc is OUTSIDE my house, dammit.