I think a lot of comments are missing a crucial aspect of the situation, which is that the same law that empowered the FCC to do this also allocated $42 billion

I think a lot of comments are missing a crucial aspect of the situation, which is that the same law that empowered the FCC to do this also allocated $42 billion in grant money to assist Telecoms in rolling out to "high cost" areas. The government is forcing a private business to consider discrimination in decisions about where to roll out, but they simultaneously have created a scheme to compensate them for doing so. In that light, hand wringing about the effects on Telco profits doesn't really make much sense to me. It's like a child saying that their parents aren't feeding them by citing the "you can't have ice cream" of the sentence "you can't have ice cream until you finish your dinner".