Please stop spouting this "the free market is always the best solution" bullshit. The large cable companies have colluded to stay out of each other's markets with or with out local laws giving them a monopoly. There are plenty of states/local cities that don't have these laws. Why aren't those places internet utopias?
If you're opposed to common carrier regulations (I certainly am not) you should be pushing for what was done in the UK where all internet providers must lease out their wires to any competition that wants to use them. That will create something that is actually closer to a free market than expecting another company to come in and tear up every city in America with redundant wires.
If you're opposed to common carrier regulations (I certainly am not) you should be pushing for what was done in the UK where all internet providers must lease out their wires to any competition that wants to use them. That will create something that is actually closer to a free market than expecting another company to come in and tear up every city in America with redundant wires.