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by loup-vaillant 3907 days ago
That is an oligopoly: You only have 2 high bandwidth providers.

The wireless offering do not count. Satellite is too slow, and virtually all 4G offering are not even internet connections: they don't give you a public IP.

Your very situation is evidence of what I am saying.

(Also note that you have one company on the cable, and one company on the DSL. Only one per physical line. Here in France, we at least have 4 big players in the DSL alone, and a number of very small ISPs that nobody knows.)