We have Directv. We live in the middle of no-where and the issues we have is they always find a way to raise the bill. $60 month. We no longer buy pay per view movies since they come on TV at some point. We complain and they reduce the bill then give us the free movie channels. For us the movies are crap, they replay the same ones over and over. Now at first when we got the free HBO.MAX all of them it was nice for me because I hadn't seen most of the movies for years and hadn't seen the others. Then after a couple of months I didn't even watch.
Our signal goes in and out during snow. Customer support is iffy some times. We called to cancel the movie channels and the guy at Directv told my hubby we couldn't until the final day of the offer.
I have Wild Blue for the net. Others in town have Hughes and they complain. Some days the signal is down for a couple of hours with Hughes. Most on Hughes have had to get new modems. I think they are about the same price as Wild Blue I have the middle package 69$ a month. I do have bandwidth issues and don't like Wild Blue if you go over you get penalized for 30 days with slower than dial up speed. I used to have the faster speed, but just cannot afford it anymore.
No way cable will ever be up here. I have a friend who has Comcast and he is happy with it.