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That is what is great about this massive world of the internet. When one provider doesn't carry something or chooses to drop something, as long as there is demand for it, at least 2 or 3 other providers will pick it up and offer it.
This is also why we need to stop these illegal "net neutrality" bills that Congress keeps trying to force through. They would essentially force all companies to offer their service for all items in their market, whether they want to or not. Verizon would have to open their network up to AT&T or JoeBlowWireless. JBW could be a shell company that maybe sells a few unlocked cheap web capable cell phones and never have to pay for their own network, they can just mooch off of the other companies that already have theirs laid out. Comcast would have to allow and never throttle or block traffic from any company and as people start sucking up as much bandwidth as they can use, all the ISPs start failing.
The networks get overcrowded and the entire system starts failing one node at a time. Same would start happening to the internet to the point where all internet and cell phone based communications just stop working over the course of a few weeks as everything comes crashing down.
This is the same type of layout that people complain about with Amazons "censorship". If they were forced to carry every ebook and paper book ever made, they would have so much overhead that they would just fail and close up shop, just like every other book/ebook provider.
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