I can understand the Republican point of view here: the government doesn't care about customer satisfaction or uptime because they can't go out of business. How

I can understand the Republican point of view here: the government doesn't care about customer satisfaction or uptime because they can't go out of business. However, american ISPs have proven over and over they are unfair and incompetent. It's 2015 and I can barely get speeds over ~1mbps (I live in Idaho, but still). Maybe they would try a little harder if they had government competition.