Great article by Mitch Wagner at Information Week. Key graf:

What we really need on the Internet is more competition, not less. Right now, if you want Internet access, you have a choice between your local telephone company and your local cable TV company. When there are only two businesses providing a service, that makes it easy for them to collude against customers. We need to encourage WiMAX, satellite Internet, and other technologies that will give customers dozens of options for getting Internet access, so if the customer doesn’t like the terms set by one provider, the customer can just pick another.