they need all of those. I was saying that even in the absence of regulation, needing to physically network every customer is a huge barrier to entry. it's basically the same as the hypothetical where there were multiple sewer networks or electrical grids just so you could choose your supplier there
What is wrong with communal fiber for the last few miles? As long as it’s truly a “public road” (for a reasonable network size) without any small print, owned by the consumers themselves so they decide on the peering? (But are legally prevented from exclusivity traps, which might be already the case - need to read up on this).
Need just one of those for every place, and relaxed zoning laws between such IXes (where ISPs come to play). That assuming that those singleton last-mile networks are ran by the people for the people, in a low corruption environment (which I believe the US is, at least on a smaller-scale levels). If democracy doesn’t fix unfairness I’m not sure what can do.
