Where I live we have a free market. You can choose any provider you want for cellphone, normal wired phone and broadband via the phone wire. I kinda assumed it was the same in the US since they say US is supposed to be the land of the free. But if the ISPs have a monopoly in an area each over there then I guess they can go ahead and screw over their trapped customers as much as they want to.Do you americans at least get to choose which power company to buy electricity from?