ISP Monopoly Forces Consumers to Tolerate Daily Outages With No Alternatives
Residents in areas with a single ISP provider face daily internet outages with no competitive alternative available. Paying high monthly fees for unreliable service while locked into a monopoly creates intense frustration. This is an infrastructure policy problem that cannot be addressed through software.
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