> I get it, the US is big, but I just can't understand still why the government itself doesn't invest heavily in fiber connections. Massive corporate lobbying.

> I get it, the US is big, but I just can't understand still why the government itself doesn't invest heavily in fiber connections. Massive corporate lobbying. It isn't even just that they don't proactively invest in public Internet infrastructure, they (primarily though not exclusively the Republicans) also work to make it illegal at the local level as a protectionism racket for the telecom companies. The same telecom companies who have proven time and time again they have zero interest in actually competing and instead have mostly just carved up what amount to regional monopolies for broadband services. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-broadband-competition-would-ban-city-run-networks-across-us/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/gop-plan-for-bro... https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc... https://broadbandbreakfast.com/sen-cruz-leads-gop-effort-to-block-fccs-wi-fi-hotspots-order/ https://broadbandbreakfast.com/sen-cruz-leads-gop-effort-to-...