https://marco.org/2007/06/23/where-are-we-today-the-baby-bells-have
Where are we today? The Baby Bells have re-consolidated. Telephone service in this country is essentially controlled by AT&T (in the West) and Verizon (in the East), with Qwest filling in gaps. And two-way communications in this country […] are controlled by a duopoly of Big Phone and Big Cable. […] The duopoly is something like Shamu and Godzilla on hire for televised wrestling – giant beasts gently swatting at one another for the cameras. They aren’t competing, these giants. There is a clear failure in the market for highspeed internet access in this country.
— Susan Crawford (via AZspot)