Or, it takes a certain amount of Government regulation to maintain a free market <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/carterfone-40-years/>. I like the closing remarks: We do not begrudge the CEOs of these great corporations their legal positions. But they are, as Andrew Carnegie would put it, stewards of the system, not its owners. They are not there to tell us to Go Away. They are there to keep the system running while we discover it, use it, develop it, innovate it, game it, finesse it, and reinvent it to our heart's content. The great enterprise of telecommunications is no better than our right to participate in it as individuals.