The real problem is a complete absence of leadership and policy aimed at making sure that low-priced, ubiquitous, world-class fiber optic services reach every home and business. Left to their own devices, the giant US companies Pai is determined to protect have every incentive to divide markets, avoid capital investments in upgrades to fiber that reach everyone, charge as much as they can get away with, and leave out poorer and rural people. That is in fact what has happened here.
LOL, what a load of bullshit.
First of all, technology is making it possible for for customers to get more than enough bandwidth without FTTP. Already most coax based residential cable platforms are capable of offering up to 300Mbps straight out. Hell, many major cable providers already start at 100Mbps in their base offering which when bundled is cheap as hell, and still cheap when not bundled.
Dealing with larger Enterprise customers with "smart" IT staffs, I can tell you that people in most instances way, way, way over estimate the amount of bandwidth they need.
It's hilarious to think that some people actually feel like that they can sit on their ass gobbling up hundreds of gigabits a month in total Internet usage but then demand that it's provided to them for pennies on state-of-the-art networks.
Not to mention in the land of urban sprawl that all these neighborhoods that cost assloads of money to build out to, get state of the art platforms for pennies relative to the amount of bandwidth consumed.
I'm currently looking at a bill of materials core backbone upgrade in a Topeka sized city. $8.9 million before labor, bring in the remote nodes, double that price, before labor. Why, because in order to continue the franchise, the city demanded they become a Gigabit City, when customers can already call up and order 400x50 service for their house. Total takers: 376