When people talk about broadband competition, they're generally not suggesting a second physical line to your house, they're talking about requiring telecomms w

When people talk about broadband competition, they're generally not suggesting a second physical line to your house, they're talking about requiring telecomms with subsidized last-mile infrastructure to rent access to it to their competitors at cost. That is (oversimplified, but not wholly inaccurate, I think) how they do it in South Korea, where the average home has only one physical data line but a choice of three big ISPs to service it. By some sort of wacky cooincidence, South Korea also has the best broadband access in the world. (How good? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_South_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_South_Korea a typicaly 1000Mb/s line is $20/mo. I have one choice, Comcast, and I pay 4x that much for 1/100th of that speed.)