I want to pile up: Why is it that bandwidth today is so expensive for things like video? Is there some kind of a good-ol-boys network of companies that are prev

I want to pile up: Why is it that bandwidth today is so expensive for things like video? Is there some kind of a good-ol-boys network of companies that are preventing from making bandwidth so cheap its not worth metering? What does the future hold? I am asking this because YouTube seems to have a massive monopoly both on technology as well as content/audience/network-effects. Even if you can get all the people of Youtube to shift over, you still need to solve the problem of bandwidth and the costs associated with that.