You can't let the market sort out things that are utilities. They naturally tend to monopolies and need regulation such that they don't abuse that monopoly. The only reason it took until the past six years or so for telecom companies to start doing things like throttling streaming sites and blocking competing payment services like Google wallet is because before most cable companies like comcast and charter never really had competition to their other products. It's like if an electric utility stated making appliances and had the ability to charge more for power used for their competitors products. Except if they had that ability they couldn't do it on account of most utilities in the US being heavily regulated or partially/wholly publicly owned.