>>838186
>Considering most burgers only get 1-2 ISP's per area
I live in bumbfuck nowhere suburban burger land and I can get
>HFC from CableCo
>ADSL, T1 or $$FIBER$$ from the telco
>LTE from Sprint, VZN, ATT, TMO
>Piles of MVNO that resell the above
If you don't have at least those choices you should really consider moving near some sort of civilization if internet access is important to you.
>Half of them are compromised and untrustworthy by default.
You should be treating ALL ISPs as untrustworthy by default. Encrypt always.
>They will enforce local monopolies and won't let new lines be layed down though.
Local monopolies happen because your local government signs franchise agreement's or impose laws on the state level. And like I said: Government wont save you.It was this way before 2015 and NN did nothing about this.