This seems similar to the situation the US is in with broadband and mobile. We already had this big decades-long investment in copper (cable and phone) and old

This seems similar to the situation the US is in with broadband and mobile. We already had this big decades-long investment in copper (cable and phone) and old cell towers, so it was easier to just keep using, maintaining, and expanding it while the rest of the world got (or is getting) affordable high cap (or no cap) 4G and fiber to the home. Comcast is in the middle of rolling out gigabit everywhere after Google lit a fire under their butts, so I guess we'll catch up with the rest of the world eventually in our own stumbling, expensive way.