[exelius]

Even in a truly free market, most areas would only have one ISP. See how Verizon and AT&T have dramatically scaled back or stopped their FiOS/U-Verse rollout plans. If a company with easements and existing infrastructure (and thus lower costs) has decided it can't justify the investment, how would anyone else?

[orthecreedence]

I was saying "Yay free market" as in "a truly free market is a bad idea as seen by local ISP monopolies," not as in "our free market has failed us and needs to be freer."

In a truly free market, there would be one company that owns everything, including infrastructure. Not a world I'd like to live in.

[randac]

You only need look outside the US to see that's garbage.