Yeah, except then you start running into copyright infringement.

You can't use an iPhone within hundreds of miles of where I live

Oh there's a great business model. Try to build a huge infrastructure with satellites and hundreds of stations...supported by people who live so far from civilization that they can't use an iPhone. Respectfully, there's just not a lot of money to be made off of the people who live in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Alaska, etc. That's why AT&T doesn't have any interest in it. If it were such a goldmine, they'd be providing you with satellite iPhone connections.

That's funny, because a majority of the people I know no longer even watch TV, though they're biased towards the liberal urban 20- and 30-something set. Worthwhile shows get rented on DVD or streamed. News comes in through the radio or internet. When they want to watch sports, the go to a bar. I honestly can't think of a reason I'd want to pay $100/mo for cable television that has a worse selection of entertainment than Netflix or Hulu or the torrent sites.

Yeah, except a screen full of text was 40 characters by 25 characters in those days. I DARE you to go set your terminal window to 40x25 and relive those days. My Bash prompt alone is 25 characters long.

How soon we forget...