There's arguably been a few instances of "no one ever got fired for picking IBM" syndrome in neighborhoods I have lived in that considered it. When a local aut

There's arguably been a few instances of "no one ever got fired for picking IBM" syndrome in neighborhoods I have lived in that considered it. When a local authority run by people with little understanding of the technology is presented with a local infrastructure bid from a not so well known group vs a glossy Comcast/AT&T/<big telco> bid etc... I absolutely agree though. It's an antitrust problem that has caused me genuine huge cost increases in reality (Comcast mandatory 1TB data cap in Comcast only neighborhoods. not sure if this nonsense still going on), not just hypothetically. There are ways to expose the existing networks to competition too. There are examples out there of using careful legislation to force a big monopoly player to share cable space and so on, allowing other vendors to compete on price.