While the FCC's top-down approach to affecting change here would have probably been the most efficient; realistically, this type of change will probably need to come from the residents of the various states (bottom-up).
I suspect part of the problem is that people don't know that there are state laws, local ordinances and a lot of money changing hands to ensure the monopolistic behavior stays intact. And the reason they don't know is because 1) current options are "good enough" 2) status-quo bias makes us think change is too hard
I live in CT. I have only one option for broadband (which stinks, but its good enough). However, after reading about this FCC judgement... I'm kind of interested to see what effect that would have had in CT and my local town if it had gone through. I suspect its not going to be an easy process to dig this information up. Thoughts on places to start, what to look for?