In the last six months, many competitive residential DSL providers have either gone bankrupt, sold out or ended the DSL portion of their businesses, leaving consumers in many U.S. regions a single choice for DSL service: the local phone company. The competitive fallout has opened the door for price hikes.

My own DSL contractor Northpoint filed for bankrupty protection last month, and Covad is hurting too. Go sign those low price DSL contracts while you can. Doh.