I hope someone writes a book about this some day. There seems to be a lot of history involved. Somehow a corporate monopoly seems to be regulating an industry to suit it's own desires, in a way that seems implausible. Even in the U.S. I doubt Comcast. AT&T or Verizon dare to dream of self regulatory power like this.
They don't dream it at all, it is de facto, and obvious! If you don't realize that, you're the starry-eyed one in the room.