>I live in a semi-rural area. I chose to live there. Why should everyone else pay to give me top-tier internet access? One could as why everyone else should ha

>I live in a semi-rural area. I chose to live there. Why should everyone else pay to give me top-tier internet access? One could as why everyone else should have to pay to give you postal service at the same price as someone in, say, NYC when the cost of provision is much higher. The reason the person above you mentioned government is that it's likely that government owns the streets that any net access would run through as well as having countless other regulations that would need to be followed.