[bo1024]

I think this is a damaging perspective. Sure, it's not a bad goal, but I strongly disagree with the implication that we should drop the fight for net neutrality in return for a faint sliver of hope of some small progress.

As far as I can tell, the only effective way to break up ISP monopolies would be to force allowing any/all companies to share the wires to your house. As long as one company owns the physical wires and a competing service would have to physically lay down new, redundant infrastructure, there's no chance due to the costs involved.

And it will be difficult, painstaking, and incremental to pass those kinds of laws (probably starts at the state and local level). It will take years and years.

NN was a simple, single federal law that protected all Americans everywhere and was already in place. So while improved competition is a good long-term goal to shoot for, it should be complementary to NN, definitely not a replacement.

[zzzcpan]

Sharing wires is not where the problem is. These days last mile can be very very cheap as long as there is no rent seeking anywhere or regulations denying open access to the infrastructure for the last mile. So what is needed is a law that exempts ISPs somehow from the decades of anti-competitive regulations, guarantees open access to the infrastructure, prevents monopolies and local authorities from rent seeking, denying or overpricing such access.