..."Well, one might say the market failure is that in the broadband market, Big Cable and Big Telco control 99% of the broadband access, and many if not most consumers have no other choice for broadband. That seems like a pretty big market failure, broadband-wise."
I imagine if this comes to pass in 10 years we'll be looking at some kind of monopoly suits ala Microsoft.... Just a theory.
I may not know a whole lot about the intricacies of the situation, but I do know that what they want is bad. Lock-in is bad. Period.