FWIW I downvoted you because I don't think that your comment is productive. I agree with your sentiment though, I have no idea what local regulations supposedly have caused there to be little or not competition in internet providers. My understanding is that it is incredibly expensive to build and maintain an internet infrastructure. Coupling that with the recent rules that do not require ISPs to sell bandwidth and basically it becomes economically infeasible to build a new ISP from the ground up (if google can't afford to do it, who can?)

This is a common tactic of so-called libertarians: claim that competition is good so that the best is able to win against everybody else. Then, claim that monopolies/oligopolies are the sole responsibility of bad government.