[thomastjeffery]

New businesses do not necessarily need to own the infrastructure. They just need bandwidth.

Competing businesses could even work together to improve existing infrastructure.

The problem is that existing monopolies do not dissipate without external pressure, because it is not to their benefit.

We have 6 monopolies now, and we need to actively break them up. Short of that, we need to regulate them.

[jlillyreed]

Existing businesses have many incentives to not give bandwidth on their infrastructure to their competition - especially at competitive prices

[betterunix2]

In some countries, and in the USA until 2005, the regulations require incumbent service providers to lease their infrastructure to competitors. France has such requirements, and unsurprisingly they pay less for their fiber optic service than Americans.

[thomastjeffery]

That is the heart of the problem.