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by bduerst 1989 days ago
This is how most natural monopolies are handled. The U.S. is a bit of an outlier in that regional communications is still private.
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Yup, I was kind of amazed at how the situation played out a few years ago with Wheeler and then onto Pai. You don't need the same type of net neutrality laws if you just make them utilities, but ISPs of course know this and made sure that wasn't going to happen then.