Well, a voice bandwidth (say: 36kBaud) communication line was provided at a price of roughly $45 per hour (in todays US$) for decades before the AT&T breakup. Movies like 2001 and Blade Runner envisioned a future of video phone-booths where “the phone company” would charge more for a 3 minute video call than most people spend on lunch. Those kinds of economic strangleholds - charging thousands of times what the actual cost of service delivery is - definitely stifle innovation, much like utility tariff rates on solar power connection to the grid mostly decide where rooftop solar power is rolled out at scale, and where it isn’t.