Because very large companies with a lot of money are willing to spend vast fortunes to ensure we don't. If it costs them $200 million in lobbying to ensure that they hang onto $1 billion a year in revenue, that's well worth it to them, while the rest of us are too busy paying our too-high monthly ISP bills to scrape together $200 million to counter their lobbying.
A regular diet of TechDirt[0] on the subject, going back many years, tells quite a story.
A regular diet of TechDirt[0] on the subject, going back many years, tells quite a story.
[0] https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=muni+broadband