Comment by colechristensen

This is what everybody is TRYING to do. They built something and will do everything they can to charge outsized rent on it far past the value it provides to take revenue from anyone downstream.

The fact that telcos couldn't charge rent was a primary reason the Internet was so successful.

Remember $0.10 per text message? You bet in some alternate timeline AT&T charges $0.10 per webpage visit and we're stuck on 100kbps connections because the monopoly doesn't want to innovate.