We just need to pray harder to the market god, and maybe we’ll get competition?
Unfortunately, the reason you can't see the hand is because it is up the government's dress.
If you think we have a free market in the US for telecom (or medicine, or a lot of other things), I have a monopoly to sell you.
Or maybe it is extremely wasteful and expensive to run 5 different water pipes, 5 different sewer pipes, 5 different electrical lines, 5 different natural gas pipes, and 5 different fiber lines to each house.
Obviously the solution is to give more tax breaks to these businesses. All that extra money will surely flow down in the form of lower prices to consumers, and not in the form of bonuses and 4th-homes for the company execs.