But everything is not currently fine on price or performance. Most places don't even really have a duopoly. It's a single cable TV/internet operator and a single DSL operator, the DSL is way slower than the cable and both are overpriced. If you add SpaceX service to the mix I think you'll quickly see major price drops and equipment upgrades from most major terrestrial ISPs.

See: Google Fiber. When they started rolling it out, ISPs were folding themselves backwards trying to convince people not to switch.

Anecdotal, but I remember someone on Reddit from Kansas City mentioning that Time Warner had offered them something silly like 100M/10M down/up for more money than the incoming Google Fiber was going to be (for 1Gbps synchronous).

I have no idea what the situation is like now, but I'd imagine it's gotten better. They aren't going to sit around wasting money when infinitely better tech is knocking on their front door.

I think you underestimate just how much people truly hate Comcast...

> if everything is currently fine on price and performance

have you checked what internet costs in other countries?

I was specifically replying to the OP. You're changing the topic if we're now discussing areas where you don't have two isps.

I think you missed the point of my original comment and fixated on the word "duopoly" for some reason.

You used the word duopoly. I responded to the word you used. The point being that 99% of the people in your area also in a duopoly simply don't care.