Sure method matters.
I can say this though I am one of those 50 million households. I live 5 miles from the cities edge and I have exactly 1 option for broadband and that is spectrum. In the area here there are a couple subdivisions so say 30 - 50 houses in my immediate area all with only Spectrum for broadband (25 mbps or higher rated speed). AT&T, not that I would ever use that crap company, has no offerings out here. Too far out for DSL as well all the providers say, so since my job requires internet 100% I have to accept whatever spectrum offers at whatever price they offer it at as there is no other reasonable option.
Before some one pipes in with the 4G/5G wireless will fix it, that wont work as i regularly because of working out of the house use between 350gb and 1 tb a month depending on how many patches or OS updates I have to push to machines at work and of course personal usage like streaming video and music.