We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, not FIOS. My Time Warner speeds are download at about 20 Mbps and upload at a paltry 1 Mbsp. For this and a phone number I pay a relatively absurd amount of money by any international comparison. Why is that? Because we don’t have any last mile competit...

We live Chelsea, which is a mostly residential neighborhood in Manhattan and theoretically one of the world’s leading cities. Yet I have a choice of exactly one true broadband provider: Time Warner Cable. Verizon at my address offers DSL only, not FIOS. My Time Warner speeds are download at about 20 Mbps and upload at a paltry 1 Mbsp. For this and a phone number I pay a relatively absurd amount of money by any international comparison. Why is that? Because we don’t have any last mile competit...