The problem is Congress and the FCC bear just as much culpability for the anti-competitive telecom markets as the state governments. It's naive to think that a

The problem is Congress and the FCC bear just as much culpability for the anti-competitive telecom markets as the state governments. It's naive to think that a group that created these monopolies have any interest in the sort of deregulation that would actually encourage competition, and in particular would allow the success of new telecoms/ISPs.