When I lived in Louisiana, I had Comcast cable and LIKED it, more for Internet connectivity but, the TV wasn’t bad either. I don’t remember it ever going out.
Where I live now, rural western Arkansas, cable is not available nor is DSL. What I do have Dish Satellite for Television and use an air card for Internet. These work OK but, I find the Satellite is more expensive and goes out quite often. We get some pretty bad electrical storms with Tornados. When one of these show up the satellite goes out, usually when the weather guy says “Tornados are in the area and on the ground headed for …… Acquiring Satellite Signal” If I had the choice I would kick Satellite to the curb and go for Cable everything.

Just my opinion for my area.

My cable never went out when the industry had some analog, that is, before the industry went all digital. Just a note, you may be talking about when cable had some analog feeds, which was only about a year ago.

Today, with all digital, large imperfections in the line are difficult for a set-top box to rectify. A cable company (e.g., Comcast) can no longer get away with too many line imperfections in the cable system. It's like when a DVD is dirty inside a DVD player. The video usually stalls. In contrast, an analog VCR will keep the video rolling, imperfections and all.