>Every provider of POTS service to your houses and apartments is a regulated monopoly. And while they have to let DSL companies access the lines and long distan

>Every provider of POTS service to your houses and apartments is a regulated monopoly. And while they have to let DSL companies access the lines and long distance competition, the barriers to entry are still there, and the level of regulation is stifling making it hard to compete. Not true and this isn't how this works. I work for a small, competitive provider of communications services, including POTS service. While we're regulated, we're hardly a monopoly. Yes, there are barriers to entry, but they are usually driven by cost and scale. In many cases it's regulation that permits competition!