Partly it was the cost, which was approaching forty dollars a month when we quit, and partly it was the fact I didn't want to be paying for crap like Fox News even if I never watched it.
5G cell service has come to our neighborhood and some of my neighbors are using it for full time internet service. I'm not certain how that works. The last time I looked the "unlimited video" on these plans was automatically downscaled to 480 lines, which is DVD quality and would be good enough for us. My wife and I mostly watch the lowest priced Netflix streaming or DVDs.
For home internet we have a DSL connection that we've had for a very long time, from before Comcast or our phone company even offered their own internet service.
We can also connect to the internet through my wife's cell phone. I can use my cell phone as well, but my data plan is too limited for casual video streaming.
For power outages we have a 100 watt solar panel, charge controller, and some batteries. That's enough to recharge phones in some disaster, which would be useful assuming the cell phone system stays up as well.
We've yet to have a power outage that lasted long enough to completely drain the batteries of the uninterruptible power supply our DSL modem and wifi server are attached to.
My wife and I don't watch any television news or opinion. We read our news and have subscriptions to several online newspapers. My wife has never watched television news and I quit in disgust shortly after 9/11/2001. I'd been reading DU from its beginning, but first signed on in February, twenty years ago. Yeah, DU is important to me.
Looking at our adult children and their cousins I think traditional television and radio is dying. They stream everything, even in their cars.
Our children work mostly at home in businesses that are heavily dependent on the internet. They have very fast fiber internet connections direct to their homes. I don't think they'd live anywhere that didn't have that.
For better or worse electronic communication has changed the world. Mostly for the better, I think, in spite of all the crap.
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