[gs8]

It's amazing how much has been given to ATT & Verizon to build out new fiber networks (which they still haven't finished) and now when people start using them to their potential we will be hit with overages, awesome.

It won't get any better until the cities/localities remove exclusive territory rights for companies that provide phone and cable.

[Lost_BiomedE]

Telecoms also fought hard to make it illegal for cities to offer ubiquitous broadband for free. It started being a small trend for cities to do this as incentive to live there, but it was quickly squashed.

They also sat on DSL for over a decade until the telecom act of '96 allowed others to roll-out DSL. They finally started to market it themselves when they were forced.