it may be cheaper and cheaper but your bill wont rember they have contracts with your county that lock out all competition. the same for at@t if you went to dsl and normally those 2 tend to work together to totally shutdown a area from free market. look whats going on right now we are actually having a fight over weather or not they can block sites or content complete with them trying to pass a bill to essentially kill off the fcc in keeping them in check.