This is one of those cases where I might agree if these companies weren’t actively trying to monopolize, failing to invest in their services, or trying to charg

This is one of those cases where I might agree if these companies weren’t actively trying to monopolize, failing to invest in their services, or trying to charge hand over fist in every possible way. Since ISPs are generally terrible though, they absolutely deserve to pay through the nose for every failure. It has to be punitively bad for them to fail, or they have proven that they just don’t care.