The monopoly telecoms get tons of money from the government. The point of the regulations is to protect the taxpayer's money that they are using in the name of "narrowing the digital divide". They have always been doing a poor job at narrowing the divide, why assume we can trust a for-profit organization to do the right thing on their own? I doubt that increased competition will create enough profit for these monopoly telecoms to move into sparsely populated, lower income areas of America.