The reason ISPs are monopolies is because if they were unregulated, you'd have a thousand phone lines outside of everyone's house, from every single private pho

The reason ISPs are monopolies is because if they were unregulated, you'd have a thousand phone lines outside of everyone's house, from every single private phone network provider. You'd have a bunch of phones in everyone's houses, one for each network. This is what it looked like before the FCC: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FfVBroPT--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xvcknezbz7ir9lhbbicu.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FfVBroP... An unregulated ISP market is a safety hazard and ugly. Because of these issues, government eventually decided that only one phone company can serve each house, forcing a monopoly situation because of that. But that monopoly has to allow every other network access to that line so that callers can call anywhere. This is the origin of net neutrality. You're never going to go back to the situation where you have a thousand different lines to everyone's houses, so you're better off regulating them properly with net neutrality.