These guys are paid tens of billions of dollars to run cable and setup networking gear only to turn around and charge us to use it.
The Affordable Connectivity Program was funded by 14 billion dollars of taxpayer money to subsidize the monthly subscription to the telecoms. This is on top of the 42.45 billion they were given to provide service to unserved and underserved areas... all the while AT&T lobbies to prevent nationwide fiber rollouts.
The whole thing is a racket. We should have the cheapest, fastest, most available networking in the entire world with the exception of highly rural areas, the same kinds of areas where Satellite and Cellular networking is preferred due to extremely low density. Any city that is even remotely suburban should at the minimum have municipal at-cost high speed networking connections that are symmetrical gig as once you build it, maintaining it is way cheaper than what the telcos charge.
As a bonus, i've yet to hear a horror story about municipal fiber. I've heard horror stories from pretty much everyone regarding their experience with for-profit telcos.