I'd be happy to bypass Comcast and AT&T and run my own lines. Can you tell me what the process is by which I can dig up the street and run my own ethernet cable down it? Oh, I can't, because Comcast and AT&T were granted a local duopoly.
In a free society, you would own, along with your neighbors most likely, your own street and the rest of the infrastructure.
Owning the last mile will make it a lot easier to strike a good deal utilities and the rationale for monopolies collapses.
Voluntary cooperation leads to more power for the individual than coerced aggregation, which just gives it to those who get control and whoever who buys them off.
