[brewdad]

You have the freedom to choose between 2 identical services and one inferior one. At least where I live, T-Mobile stops working if I head 10 miles west or north. There's even a dead zone half a mile from my home in the middle of a suburb of 100,000 people.

Free market has always been lip service in the US.

[coryrc]

Infrastructure is a natural monopoly. Of course it isn't a free market, just like roads. I wish we had privatized roads, maybe we wouldn't be so car-dependent.

[matwood]

VZW is the inferior one where I live, but your point stands.