Only if the provider has reached a market position where their behaviour can adversely effect captive users. The Verizon/AT&T comparison is interesting; becaus

Only if the provider has reached a market position where their behaviour can adversely effect captive users. The Verizon/AT&T comparison is interesting; because it wasn't so long ago that phones were locked to carriers. Regulation could and should pry open the private networks of large software companies to facilitate healthy competition.