Why? We already paid them $400 billion dollars to get you decent Internet access (see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...). I think that gives us the right to expect you to have something better than 14Mbps DSL at a decent price.

> so expensive that Google Fiber had to give up on it

Part of that cost comes from ATT and Comcast using their government sugar daddy to make running fiber as expensive and difficult as possible.

Example: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/att-and-comcast-...

Absolutely! Even ignoring all the stimulus money and tax breaks probably given, municipalities all over the US are building out their own fiber that is blowing the others away in performance and even price usually.