No longer a luxury

To customers who don't have other options, HN is a Godsend. Without it, we'd have nothing. HughesNet goes to areas where other companies (such as Spectrum or Comcast) don't have interest in going.  Perhaps you should contact those companies and ask them why they don't want you as a customer, why they don't want rural customers in general. 

Spectrum is terrestrial, and expanding the network is relatively easy and cost effective to do. HN is satellite internet (as is Viasat), and expanding the network is a slow and very expensive process which involves building and launching satellites, as opposed to laying cable. 

While no one would disagree with you that the Internet is integral to our society and needed everywhere,  it is important to recognise the problem lies in the type of technology.  Satellite is a service for those who don't have access to terrestrial Internet. 

Instead of deriding a technology that fills a very needed purpose, your energy would go a much longer way if you focused it on getting your rural area to bring in terrestrial Internet.  Contact your local authorities, contact your reps in Congress and demand they  bring the kind of service you want and need.