Broadcasters and cable companies are at one anothers' throats in a battle to determine whether cable firms must carry broadcaster signals once they move to digital transmission. The lobbying battle may well extend to the provision of video services by other sorts of firms, like internet firms, which in the long-run may prove a bigger form of competition to the broadcasters. Most internet materials remains unregulated by the government, but the increased transmission of internet through the highly-regulated cable internet service providers cracked open the prospect for a more hands-on approach to the internet in the future.