Remember England's "Enclosure Act" that drove their agrarian peasant population into the cities?  It was a good example of those in power assuming ownership of a resource that was, at its heart, a public resource: The Land.  Did the barons have any more right to that land than the peasants?  A piece of paper said they did.  Who wrote the piece of paper?  They did.  How very tidy for them.

What became of the peasants?  Read Charles Dickens.  We're headed in that direction today--total capitalist dominance.  Paging Mr. Scrooge!

Every telephone pole you see is on public property. Broadcast networks LEASE public airwaves in a completely filled spectrum.  Yet each of these private corporations makes enormous profits using these public resources.  Now they want more money.

Ever see an ATT executive begging on the street?  Don't bother looking, because he's raking in a thousand times more income than his worker bees, the same ones he'll lay off by the thousands in the name of higher profits.  Do you really think that CEO earns all that money?  Even if a CEO drives a company into the ground, like GM's, he'll exit out the front door with a grin and a golden parachute.  Those companies aren't starving for money, they're starving for honesty.

And claiming that "prices for connectivity have been pushed down to their limit" is entirely bogus.  The technologies that make the internet possible--servers, switches, routers, optical cables, etc.--are getting more efficient, more capable and less expensive every year.  

Oh, and that reminds me--the US government already paid the major telcos $200 Billion of your taxpayer dollars to lay down a high-speed optical fiber network for the entire United States.  

Where is it, ATT?  

Fact is, it takes less effort and less money to push a megabyte from A to B this year than it did last year, yet I'll wager that your bill hasn't gone down.  That means profits are going up.  What a sweet deal...for corporations.

Greedy people grasping for more money.  That's the wholistic picture.

"Please sir, may I have some more bandwidth?"