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Why do you think it will create competition? Years ago there were so
many ISP's. They for the most part have been killed off by the big guys,
and their ability to provide high speed internet much easier and cheaper
than other companies buying the services from them.

In the late 90s early 21st century there were indeed hundreds, maybe
thousandso fo small, independent ISPs. Many of these were even offering
DSL using the major telecoms lines. The majors did not like this and
Verizon, ATT, all the big players lobbied federal and state legilatures
for tax breaks and other favorable laws and regulations with the promise
that by 2000 or so (my recollection of the timeline may be off a few years
either way) some very high percentage of the US population would have
high speed internet available at their home. The small ISPs withered and
went out of business or refocused their product lines, as the new laws
made it unprofitable for them, but very profitable for the majors.

The promised HS internet was not delivered on schedule, many areas today
still don't have it available. It took the threat posed by the
TV cable industry to finally force the majors to start deploying FIOS
and other next-gen HS internet solutions. Now the big telecoms charge
big bucks for the HS service even though American consumers essentially
paid them to build the infrastructure for it 10 years ago. The money
was paid but the product was never delivered. A small investment in
campaign contributions and lobbying by the telecoms has been repaid to
them by orders of magnitude.


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