[matheweis]

> it's not a natural monopoly. I know because...

You're lucky. I only have Cable and (crappy) DSL. My cable is good, but the DSL is so awful that if my cable provider decided to triple their rates I would have no choice but to acquiesce and pay up. I think that's the very definition of a natural monopoly.

A very large number of Americans have no, or only one high speed internet provider - and that was by the 2010 standard of "high speed": http://broadbandnow.com/report/2013-underserved/

( Relevant YC discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044719 )