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I see obstacle #1 as raising awareness. While everyone hates their cable bill, it's not obvious that there are viable alternatives to the current structure of the industry. It also doesn't help that the current structure benefits most major TV media outlets (i.e. Viacom, Comcast/NBC, Fox and ABC/Disney).

I use this subreddit as an outlet to vent/post relevant articles: http://www.reddit.com/r/bandwidth/

There are also useful lessons to be learned from history; particularly, MCI's fight against Bell System monopoly. There's a good documentary about the breakup called Long Distance Warrior[1].

[1] http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2011/09/21/long-distance-warr...




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