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The congestion in the news is at the interconnection between networks, not the last mile. This is why Netflix's deal with Comcast resulted in immediate relief without a massive rollout to upgrade last mile infrastructure.

Cable providers have a large amount of capacity provisioned to their customers and are paid a fortune by their subscribers and municipalities, using the same network for data and cable services. They just want you to use their services as opposed to a competitor. Not only that they have turned the tables forcing content providers to pay them to deliver bits.

With respect the economics of a small ISP reselling transit aren't comparable to this situation.