So let me finish it for him, what we need is more dynamic and realistic competition in the last-mile ISP business. I believe point to point high-frequency bandwidth can help solve this problem. Metropolitan fiber with sub-leasing capacity to ISPs that carry the traffic is also an option. But the natural monopoly position of last-mile wiring has always been a major issue. Hence regulation of phone companies.
In dense cities with irregular geography, the wireless line of sight can work. Eg: Webpass, monkeybrains in San Francisco. In flatter cities, this may not work as well. In less dense areas, the installation cost usually means a natural monopoly, but towers, line of sight wireless may help there.
The problem is all the LOS wireless stuff has been more of a bespoke solution rather than a scalable one. Tech has helped reduce the hardware cost, but tuning and aiming antennas - does this work for a city like, say, St Lewis?