A reason for telecom Monopoly not mentioned in the article is the overuse of cloud infrastructure to achieve "service locked-in" and "user commodity" business models. I think the HN community would do well to think more about whether their tech needs to feed this beast.

For example: I would love a digital assistant that lived in my home network, not on Google servers, and it's technologically quite feasible. I can even run GPT-J in my home lab and it's much better than Google assistant , but I can't buy that as a product. Google/openAI would rather I depend on communication with their servers.

We are moving towards a future where most things scarcely turn on without checking certs with a full internet, and thats not an ideal tech stack, imo.