The EU telecom market is just as horrible, most countries have only 1-2 "true" ISP's with actual infrastructure to their subscribers and 2-3 cell providers the rest are ISP's that rent fibers/coax access and MVNOs.
Setting up infrastructure is extremely expensive especially in cities where allot of the European population lives.
The US has a different problem where only 4% of the population lives in a major cities so ISP's have to lay allot of infrastructure and historically the more or less remain around their original starting zones and creep out very slowly.
Fiber/Coax infrastructure in the US should be done on a state and municipal levels and then offered to ISP's at a fixed price to recoup the costs via a tender based on the cost to the end consumer
Setting up infrastructure is extremely expensive especially in cities where allot of the European population lives. The US has a different problem where only 4% of the population lives in a major cities so ISP's have to lay allot of infrastructure and historically the more or less remain around their original starting zones and creep out very slowly.
Fiber/Coax infrastructure in the US should be done on a state and municipal levels and then offered to ISP's at a fixed price to recoup the costs via a tender based on the cost to the end consumer