> The government in the U.S. has already regulated ISPs to the point that an enormous artificial barrier has arisen to market entry. At the behest of telco lob

> The government in the U.S. has already regulated ISPs to the point that an enormous artificial barrier has arisen to market entry. At the behest of telco lobbying. > We need deregulation. Approval for the major carriers in the U.S. is low enough[0] that someone could probably disrupt the entire industry, except it is next to impossible to enter. Small carriers are starting up, I just read an article chronicling several successful municipal broadband carriers in isolated pockets, and in each of their stories they are essentially boxed in by .... guess.... lobbying from larger telcos. (I think it may have been on HN, but if not just google 'successful municipal broadband') Every step of the way it is the large telcos that prevent their growth. Perhaps if there were no incumbents in the ISP space deregulation might actually see improvements, but as it is the last thing we need is AT&T/Comcast/et al given free reign. The more we staple their balls to the chair the closer we get to a truly shared internet commons.