[jMyles]

Well, to use the current example, the monopoly can be broken with buildouts of wireless mesh networking.

By contrast, government intervention might well make wireless mesh networking, as a methodology for reconstructing the internet, far less plausible.

[rrmm]

Either can exert good and bad influences. Neither business nor government is your friend. Both can be large and unwieldy, and large entities often step on smaller ones even if inadvertently.

Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and exert our own influence to push things in a favorable direction. No one else will.

[jMyles]

One of them claims the authority to use violence to coerce you. I tend to be more skeptical of that one.

[guelo]

No, wireless mesh networking is never going to displace fiber providers.

[jMyles]

For final mile applications, I assert that it will. For longer transit, I agree.