Improving a network costs money. Are people willing to pay enough money for a faster, TV-less network to justify that investment? Nobody in the industry operating at scale is showing that in their economics.<p>People don&#x27;t want wired Internet without TV, or at least not enough to pay very much for it. People in the HN bubble don&#x27;t really get that. I live in a building where I&#x27;ve got a rock-solid 50&#x2F;20 FiOS connection with amazing pings that never goes down. But in Baltimore Verizon doesn&#x27;t have a cable license, so it&#x27;s just Internet (which is fine, because I&#x27;m a cord-cutter).<p>I also have the option of Comcast, which struggles with Netflix during prime-time, for twice as much money. When I first got FiOS installed, the installer was surprised to find out that the ONT on my floor wasn&#x27;t even configured, because none of the ~50 units on that floor had <i>ever</i> subscribed to FiOS. Everyone subscribes to Comcast, because they want TV.