It is actually somewhat meaningful here; the trading decisions are made fast enough that speed of light is the bottleneck and companies pay to be colocated in NASDAQ data centers (paid advantage, "market efficiency"'s invisible hand will probably guide Nasdaq into setting up their next data center on the moon to make the colocated latency sell even easier). Companies also do things like set up microwave relay towers to bypass fiber lines from Chicago to New York, I don't think there are similar stories about TV remotes.