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Also, if you are wondering why there hasn't been a phone company out that doesn't blatantly try to screw the consumer in every way conceivable, it's b/c the phone companies have govt ties preventing competition, simply b/c the govt tried to break up the "monopolies" but in actuality, made things much much worse.

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I'm pretty ignorant on the subject. But I'm assuming the government ties you're talking about involves the bandwidth distribution, yes? If so, I'm not sure I see a solution to that problem that doesn't involve some kind of regulatory agency.