It’s a thing, it’s just run by the same companies, so you’re stuck with them either way.

Are you saying you have to pay those companies for access to satellite TV? In Germany it’s completely free, except for the cost of buying and setting up a satellite dish of course.

And ISPs here aren’t exclusively cable TV companies. Internet over coax cable does exist, but since there is competition from DSL and Fiber ISPs it’s actually priced very competivitely

It’s very common here in Germany

Is satellite TV not a thing in America?