Comment by klez

> This drives up the "real" price of these purchases because of the time constraint.

I'd say you answered your own question.

> telco's tend to be oligopolies and tend to also do some form of price collusion among themselves, it was generally accepted as "just how things were"

So are LLM companies, at this stage

> Am I missing something?

Not really

> Is this really how things should be?

No, this is how thing are. I'm more than interested in ways to change the status quo, though.