Choice and redundant infrastructure are different things. If you have one wide, dumb pipe, and you paid an ISP to route your traffic from some other point on s

Choice and redundant infrastructure are different things. If you have one wide, dumb pipe, and you paid an ISP to route your traffic from some other point on said local pipe into the backbone, you would have tons of ISP choices. The only reason more ISPs do not exist is because of the infrastructure costs. And those won't change. You will never be in a climate where it is haphazard to rip up roads or peoples lawns or add more mess to the overhead lines to run fiber channel everywhere. In terms of cost, the fiber cable itself is not even expensive - it is the manual labor installing it all. > we're still letting analog-era regulations govern our use of wireless spectrum. It isn't ideology, it is the current incumbent owners of spectrum like having artificial superpowers over the future of communication.