> As someone living in rural America- it is amazing there are so many providers! Sort of. Certainly when it comes to home internet connections, there is a lit

> As someone living in rural America- it is amazing there are so many providers! Sort of. Certainly when it comes to home internet connections, there is a little bit of smoke and mirrors because BT have their horrid sticky fingers in many pies. So the reality for many home internet connections in the UK its more a case of finding an ISP who's on your side and that is willing to pick a fight with BT when needed. This also remains the fact with the alt-net home fibre providers, because they will typically just aggregate your building onto a BT connection back to their PoP. Well, that's slightly unfair, because ISPs clearly also vary on their own commercial decisions such as how "hot" they run their network, whether or not you can get static IPs and whether or not they run CGNAT. And there are some very noticeable quality differences on this level. The absolute independent choice is only there for businesses in (some parts of) major cities where you have genuinely independent operators running their own fibre end-to-end, never touching the BT network.