First, almost all the competitors began to offer better products of their own. The new competition spurred by cable modems will ensure consumers a choice of high-speed Internet access from a variety of technologies, and will finally provide competition in local phone service. Unfortunately, AOL decided that one way to beat the cable competition was to get government into the game. A list of OpenNet Coalition major donors looked almost exactly like a list of companies which could lose their customers to cable modems. If you buy Internet access from a cable company, you retain your full ability to access any part of the Internet you want.
Nothing changes about content availability.
In-between your cable television line and the Internet, your connection to the Internet is handled by an Internet service provider which works in cooperation with the cable television company. Other Internet service providers that want to use the cable lines are, of course, free to negotiate agreements with the cable companies. This is nonsense. The slow-speed providers still control 95 percent of Internet connections. Of the high- speed market, the cable companies face competition from telephone DSL, from satellite, and from terrestrial wireless.