I have friends back home in Kansas City where Google Fiber is being set up. Because there's now competition, Time Warner Cable offered them twice the internet speed they already had for the same price. I have no doubt in my mind that this offer was done to keep customers. However, with how well Fiber is supposed to be, I suspect a lot of people will be switching over to it.
How come anti-monopoly laws do not apply to these companies? Obviously they are price gouging their own customers in their respective regions, as evidenced by your example. How sub-par and expensive must a service be in order to get government regulators on it?
Because while it does seem like a monopoly, it isn't. If a person REALLY wanted to, they could move to another region and use a different provider. Something tells me there's some sort of lobbying going on which is preventing any sort of ISP reform.