Not quite, that is an issue, but not remotely the biggest one. The biggest problem (and google themselves admit this!) is planning and zoning happens at the cit

Not quite, that is an issue, but not remotely the biggest one. The biggest problem (and google themselves admit this!) is planning and zoning happens at the city and even county / neighborhood level. If you want to move into a city like say Chicago you don't just need to pass city muster. You need to get the alderman to agree for each small neighborhood. What if you need to lay fiber through neighborhood B to reach neighborhood C from neighborhood A and the zoning committee in B denies you? Well that just cut off a large swath of potential clients. This is fundamentally a problem with all infrastructure improvements in the US. The local communities have too much control over what happens. This is also why things like infra happen to move so quickly in a place like say China where the federal govt can trample over all local regulations. For things like infrastructure, this is a great thing.