Competition is built into the telcom industry. Otherwise potential customers get stagnant festering pools of poor service because there is no other game in town.
In the majority of CenturyTink's low-density service market, they have NO competitors. Nobody else wants to cover the lowest of the low density, but a WISP run on a shoestring budget could manage it.
Telcos are forced to lease their equipment at a low rate to competitors to sell services that compete with them. Cell tower radio frequencies are designed to support more than one carrier.
We the underserved have a right to demand that we have more opportunities for service better than satellite, beyond the 35 kilobit dialup we have been getting from CenturyTel for the last ten years.
You have a right to demand it, but you don't have a right to get it.
Last I checked, broadband internet wasn't a right for anyone. -- The goal of the broadcast engineer is to get all the meters on the transmitter to go as far to the right as possible!!
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