Those of us old enough to remember how awful the local/long-distance split was don't necessarily want to return to it.
The problem isn't that companies are allowed to offer different levels of service for different prices... it's that the existing ISPs have switched to a rent-seeking business model. Once a company does that, corporate culture makes it impossible for them to switch back to the more benign good-service-for-fair-price model.
The existing companies just need to die and be wiped from existence. There are other companies that aren't doing the rent-seeking thing, and we all love them Sonic, Google Fiber, etc.
Sure, let municipal fiber bloom in those places that can manage the trick, but don't mandate it top-down for the entire fucking country.
The problem isn't that companies are allowed to offer different levels of service for different prices... it's that the existing ISPs have switched to a rent-seeking business model. Once a company does that, corporate culture makes it impossible for them to switch back to the more benign good-service-for-fair-price model.
The existing companies just need to die and be wiped from existence. There are other companies that aren't doing the rent-seeking thing, and we all love them Sonic, Google Fiber, etc.
Sure, let municipal fiber bloom in those places that can manage the trick, but don't mandate it top-down for the entire fucking country.