How many providers go by your house?
If there was ever an argument for government regulation, it should be that internet service providers provide internet service. PERIOD.
ISPs are the modern equivalent of the "common carrier". In return for the physical monopoly they enjoy, they must be required to provide equal access to any and all sources of carriable information.
I've always hated telcos, just behind the gubmint.
Two, but the technology exist for a third.
The technology exist for electric companies to provide Internet Service of power lines.
How Broadband Over Powerlines Works
Regulations should always be the last resort.
I am sitting here using a Clearmodem, and the cable company that serves the apartment where I am (digging out from a financial crash, I’m not as well off in pecuniary terms as a decade ago) has an offering, and so does the phone company. By land, sea, and air figuratively speaking.
I could see some kind of interim provision that things be kept neutral for people that only one provider will serve.
There are satilite companies.