EU had to add regulation to allow startups using other's infrastructure because of the existing regulation that makes laying said infrastructure so difficult.

EU had to add regulation to allow startups using other's infrastructure because of the existing regulation that makes laying said infrastructure so difficult. Do not confuse regulations made to fix even worse regulation with an actual healthy, competitive free market. In Eastern Europe, after the fall of communism, people would lay Ethernet wire between apartment buildings to create ad-hoc communication networks. There were dozens of them. Today that is illegal and we only have a single Internet provider per city block.