This comment is spot-on, although there are some non-traditional options emerging. I've been on Starlink for months now and it's not bad in my semi-rural area

This comment is spot-on, although there are some non-traditional options emerging. I've been on Starlink for months now and it's not bad in my semi-rural area (and the fastest option available here). In Toronto a client has used Terago for over a decade (they have their own radio network), which is expensive but has also been great (and managed to stay up when both Rogers and Bell were knocked offline by a major fiber backbone break some years back). Personally I think reducing barriers and finding ways to make it cheap to install new infrastructure (eg. piggyback off hydro facilities?) would also help a lot to stimulate new startups.