Just to bring some data to the conversation, the price for 1Gps symmetric fiber is $78/mo here in the rural parts of Denmark. That also includes a bunch of other incentives such as streaming services, mesh WiFi hardware that is kept up to date as new technologies arrive. https://www.waoo.dk/fibernet/

We had a large push from the power companies back in the early 2000’s bringing fiber to homes that was outside the metropolitan areas. This has kept competition going across the country between cable, xDSL, 4-5G and fiber.