i remember those days. the dial up ISP's used to disconnect everyone who spent more than an hour logged in because no one ever had enough ports available for all of their customers. best you could do was try to dial a non local number and pay for it on your phone bill instead of it being free

except that all the regional bell companies were common carriers and charged for terminating calls onto their networks
kind of like almost every video provider out there pays commercial CDN's to host their content or transit network to carry. the CDN's in turn pay the ISP's for bandwidth. kind of like the RBOC's of old. almost everyone except your precious netflix who is trying to get special treatment with having ISP's host their CDN for free

you're an idiot
their TOTAL DEBT outstanding is like $45 BILLION. Time warner is around $20 BILLION. AT&T and Verizon are probably close to $200 billion but that includes their other businesses.
it's in that website you linked to

how exactly do you solve it?
you can create a huge company to own all the fiber and last mile wiring, but then the ISP will just dump a lot of debt onto it that they incurred laying the wire and they people will still have to pay the costs?

the ISP's are carrying over $100 billion in debt collectively because upgrades are paid for with bonds that are paid back over decades and we are still paying for upgrades done 20 years ago

why not?

is it some magic law that will make them upgrade their edge routers? common carriers just says they have to carry all traffic equally and without discrimination.

time warner cable in NYC will rent the cable card and adapter for $2.50 a month compared to $10 or more for the cable box

the owners of the broadcast channels make the cable companies pay to rebroadcast those channels via cable

the signal is encrypted even for the broadcast channels so you need a cable box or cable card with adapter.

even when they are off. at least the older Scientific Atlanta ones did. time warner cable in NYC has new Cisco and Motorola ones that are a lot more efficient and don't get nearly as hot

yeah, except that there are only a few universities in the country and only a minority of the kids go on to higher education
in the USA every hick redneck town has a college and almost everyone goes to college now

yeah, it was called GI Bill and Army college fund. Navy and air force have their own versions. still around too

and taxes are like 90% because the stupid kids decide they don't want to work in their 20's and go on mental vacations because college was so stressful

yep, back in my day it was PowerPoint. Made in America

that way content owners can sell it here and give it away in the highest torrenting parts of the world

I can see that going over really well

Even your average 300 page novel can be read in less than 2 weeks