I like how an industry that exists in its current state due to local monopoly grants and subsidized infrastructure deployment (and billions in taxpayer money fo

I like how an industry that exists in its current state due to local monopoly grants and subsidized infrastructure deployment (and billions in taxpayer money for infrastructure never built) wants a "free market". I'd love one too. I'm just wondering how you have a free market where market access requires digging up everyones front yards and roads. Almost like how "hmm, I want to start a rail / aerospace / automotive / etc) transport system of any kind. I want to build a better sewer system. Or water system. Or electrical grid. And all these industries require transports that go through private property. And all of the other ones are considered common carrier infrastructure. Maybe the real problem is that townships and such can dictate who can lay fiber cable. Would it be feasible for companies to run fiber to the home if they had to ask each private property holder to let them lay the lines in their yards? That doesn't happen now because townships et al would intervene and not let people do what they want with their land, even if you could dodge ever touching public property with a line deployment. I wonder how that would work. Thing is, these assholes aren't suggesting anything like that. They just want monopoly power and extortion rights to hold back progress and innovation for generations while robbing people.