Before my country joined the EU, people were hanging ethernet between apartment buildings to make "neighborhood nets". There were dozens of providers everywhere

Before my country joined the EU, people were hanging ethernet between apartment buildings to make "neighborhood nets". There were dozens of providers everywhere. Now we have one huge one in the whole country. And it's illegal to hang cables between buildings. I haven't heard of an ISP startup in ages. Only multinational Telecom providers, well protected by regulation.