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I dont think that ISPs have a realistic possibility of competition. There are lots of barriers to entry to start an ISP and the current ISPs could probably just

• Spooky23 9y ago
  There absolutely is. Until the phone companies decided to get out of the business of supplying landlines, there was a competitive market for both dialup and DSL service in the US. In my area, I used to buy EarthLink cable service because they offered higher upload speeds. In the UK, many people can choose one of a dozen ISPs. That's the real reasoning behind Ajit Pai and his pals in the industry hatred of the Title II regulatory classification of internet access. They want to head off local loop unbundling (which requires companies to share local infrastructure at non-discriminatory rates) and ultimately re-create the old Bell Telephone monopoly. Companies like Verizon and Comcast are incredibly inefficient and poorly administered organizations. If meaningful competition were possible, they would be slaughtered in the marketplace.