Right... if we are counting nationalized entities it's not a fair comparison really.
Most US based telCos today are based on a government backed monopoly of wireless spectrum and all of them received several billions dollars until last year to improve infrastructure (which none of them did, and had zero consequences)
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e97/eli5_how_were_isps_able_to_pocket_the_200_billion/What would you count as improving infrastructure?
Or are you talking about subsidies to wireline business not resulting in enough fiber and such?