[FredZarguna]

Nonsense. I can buy telephone service from no less than a dozen different providers, and I don't live in a big city.

Who is stopping anyone from pulling cable to your house? [Hint: No one].

What's now called "net neutrality" is not fundamentally different from the common carrier requirements enforced on the telcos in the 1980's.

What was the result?

The infrastructure degraded rapidly, or was simply left to attrition, because it was in no one's interest to upgrade their hardware for the benefit of their freeloading "competition."

I repeat: there is NOTHING stopping 90 different access providers from serving you. Now, ask yourself the question why don't they?

[steve-b]

I can buy telephone service from no less than a dozen different providers, and I don't live in a big city.

What's now called "net neutrality" is not fundamentally different from the common carrier requirements enforced on the telcos in the 1980's. What was the result?

When you answer your own question, you're supposed to put the question first and the answer below it.