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That's easy to say, but there's the well-known last mine problem. How many separate companies will be willing to run cabling to your home just to compete bitterly with an incumbent? And even if that may happen in your neighborhood, will it happen nationwide? What about rural areas where you're lucky to have one fast ISP?

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In other countries there are laws which force the cable owner to rent the last mile to any ISP.

I'd guess countries with that kind of sensible regulation also can manage net neutrality regulations...

Perhaps we should be innovating in that last mile problem.. Surely there are smart people working to engineer tech to avoid running cable.

The problem with wireless is that it's like sharing a single cable with everyone else. Yes, there are a lot of innovations to make that workable, but you're never going to get the same bandwidth and reliability as a cabled system.

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