In Canada, the large telcos are being regulated by the CRTC (Canada's FCC) and one recent regulation is forcing them to sell wholesale access to their fiber networks to smaller competitors. You think this would be a good thing, but the CRTC wholesale rates in that regulation are higher than what the big telcos are directly charging to their customers, which makes the smaller competitors unable to compete on price.

I've been shopping around these small providers, and a lot of them have recently been acquired by the big telcos.