It's also fairly standard to suffer 1-2 weeks of outages when changing ISP's, which is somewhere between unwelcome and prohibitive for a lot of people. Worse,

It's also fairly standard to suffer 1-2 weeks of outages when changing ISP's, which is somewhere between unwelcome and prohibitive for a lot of people. Worse, even places with "competitive" markets often have only one provider giving decent speeds - 1-5 Mbps maximum is not a realistic option for a lot of uses.