They also fall prey to the classic "only one Internet provider" shit because of the whole "whoever pays to have the lines in owns those lines forevermore" shit we have here
It cost Comcast 10k to run a new line half a block to a place I lived 6 years ago, and that was in a rather empty part of my town.
Imagine how much it costs to run lines M I L E S to rural people's homes. Who's even going to try setting up there when someone else already has done it?
My area is controlled by Dems that are pretty lib, but thanks to how expensive it is to start an ISP we have literally 1 option for an almost 75 square mile area for non-sattelite Internet. Their max speed is 100 Mbps synch, and you have to fill out a PDF to get service (including putting s password for your account on said PDF, I put "fuck No im not" for mine for obvious reasons), and their techs will ignore service requests (they installed their stupid rental router and charged me monthly for it despite me saying not to) and lie (they said they couldn't add my owned router to their list multiple times before someone finally took it's fucking MAC address from me)