It seems, when given the option, that most big business will try to strangle the hand that feeds them.
Cheap and reliable communication has been a keystone of American business, both domestic and foreign and here we are trying to catch up because business is too damn greedy/short-sighted for their own good.
Their argument has nothing to do with innovation. It has everything to do with making money by not rolling out a more expansive, more reliable network.
Who suffers? America does and it's not like they can just pick up their network and plop it down somewhere else.