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They get bought out.

The wonderful Minneapolis-local fiber ISP US Internet recently got bought out by T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) for example.

Wave Broadband in the bay area got bought by private equity.

All around the country you'll find local or municipal cable companies that got sold to the big players, Mediacom, Comcast, etc.



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