re: Marco Rubio on Net Neutrality: ‘This Is a Solution in Search of a Problem’

For the nth time, cable and phone providers have a built in competitive advantage as competition is limited by government regulation (and for good reason).

If any business could run phone lines there would be hundreds of copper wires on every utility pole. It would be a dangerous mess.

Small ISPs are forced to lease those copper wires from the big 6 companies that put them up in the first place (AT&T, Cox, Comcast, etc). They are NOT ALLOWED to put their own line up next to AT&T's.

Thus it is not a true free market. But they want the regulations that limit competition while whining about the ones that protect consumers. They only want a free market when it's convenient for them.